Snowflake PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - METADATA 

Germany, Berlin, Berlin 

209435007

AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - METADATA, YOU WILL:

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.

• Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.

• Design, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system including a decentralized caching system of terabytes of metadata with an ever growing request rate.

• Design and implement core foundational features including transactions, DDL/DML logs, metadata API as well as advanced features built on top of the metadata, such as declarative entity management and integrations to support developer toolchains.

• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.

• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.

OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 14+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.

• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

• Sharp original thinking to make the right choices and guide teams

• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, etc. Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred.

• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems.

• Knowledge of database internals is a big plus.

• Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations

• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.