Snowflake PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - OBSERVABILITY 

United States, California 

288908530

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.