Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DATA LAKE 

United States, California 

350566646

• Understand customer requirements and define product strategies.

• Design, develop, and operate highly reliable large scale data lake systems.

• Embrace Snowflake innovations with open source standards and tool sets.

• Be an active influencer for the direction of open source standards.

• Partner closely with Product teams to understand requirements and design cutting edge new capabilities that go directly into customer’s hands.

• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.

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

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in large scale data intensive distributed systems, especially in distributed file systems, object storage, data warehouse, data lake, data analytics, and data platform infrastructure.

• Strong development skills in Java and C++.

• An active PMC (Program Management Committee) or Committer to open source like Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Spark, Hive, Flink, Delta Lake, Presto, Trino, and Avro.

• Proven track record of leading and delivering large and complex big data projects across organizations.

• A growth mindset and excitement about breaking the status quo by seeking innovative solutions.

• An excellent team player who is consistent in making everyone around you better.

• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related major, or equivalent experience

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $327,750.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.