Snowflake PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER DRIVERS PLATFORM 

Germany, Berlin, Berlin 

394560473

Specifically, we’re on the lookout for Java or, C++ virtuosos eager to enhance our customers’ Snowflake experience with seamless integration and usability.

AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

• Lead and drive projects that span our stack.
• Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design and product management.
• Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams such as Client Backend, Stored Procedures, SQL, Storage, Cloud Services, Connectors, Security, Support.
• Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
• Mentor and coach team members.
• Build for scale, safe and high performance solution.

OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 18+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems.
• Experience with high performance and scalable software in an internet scale distributed cloud environment.
• Fluency in Java or C++.
• Experience with RDBMS and fluent knowledge of SQL language.
• Systems design and programming skills including high-throughput, multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
• Great communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• Ability to work in a hybrid work model in our Berlin office.

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• Knowledge of the internals of database system technologies and implementation.
• Experience or knowledge in designing and building customer-facing distributed web services and APIs (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL, messaging).
• Experience in C#, Node.js, Go.