AS A PRINCIPAL ENGINEER IN OBSERVABILITY, YOU WILL:
- Work with the senior engineering leaders to define the direction and strategy of the Observability platform
- Lead the efforts to evolve the platform and the roadmap to implement it
- Communicate and evangelize the observability strategy and best practices to the rest of the company
- Mentor and grow more junior engineers and tech leads in the team
OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
- 15+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting distributed systems and large-scale data processing systems in production
- Outstanding leadership capabilities, with the ability to build a positive, collaborative, and technically-focused team environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate with internal customers and establish solid, collaborative partnerships with engineers, non-technical team members, and executives
- Written skills are key to success in working with our distributed teams
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
- Extensive experience in a technical leadership role with at least one of the pillars of observability: Logs, Metrics, Traces, Profiling etc
- Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- Contributions to any of these are welcome: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, OpenTracing, CNCF, etc
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
- The estimated base salary range for this role is $235,000 - $368,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.