Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DATA PLATFORM 

United States, California 

410681292

• Design and develop features, understand customer requirements, and meet business goals

• Build highly reliable software to meet the needs of the largest customers

• Enhance the programmability surface of Snowflake and improve the experience of the data developer

• Contribute to big data open source projects to add connectivity and support for Snowflake

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

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

• 7+ years industry experience designing and building distributed systems, database systems, compilers, or other enterprise cloud data platforms

• Experience building enterprise grade, reliable and trustworthy software or services

• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills

• Fluency in Java and/or C++

• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers

• Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office

• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field

• SQL and/or other database technologies including internal implementations

• Data warehouse architecture, design, and experience working with large-scale data processing solutions

• ASF open source projects, ideally from the big-data/Hadoop ecosystem

• Implementation testing, debugging, documentation, query compilation, compiler design and implementation

• Cloud infrastructure, AWS in particular

• Delivering compelling experiences in SaaS or web-based solutions

• Implementing multi-tenant systems, with focus on isolation and security

• Designing and implementing systems for public or private clouds

As a member of our team, you will:

• Build an industry-leading data management system that customers love

• Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!

• Learn about and contribute to the most robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily

• Learn about and contribute to a highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines

• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars

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.