Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS 

United States, California 

67381000

• Design, build, and maintain global user-facing services and systems at scale.
• Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure by helping define and own the roadmap, working collaboratively and proactively with senior architects, PMs, and team leadership.
• Investigate performance and scalability bottlenecks and develop systems that are highly available and fault tolerant.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to continuously improve our development velocity and capabilities at Snowflake.

• 5+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale data systems in production.
• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Fluency in Java, C++, or Python, and SQL
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures. Familiarity with developing distributed system internals, and database technologies including internal design and implementation
• Experience in customer-facing product development and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience preferred.
• Ability to work on-site in our San Mateo, CA office.

• Building modern data processing systems
• Database technologies including internal design and implementation
• Developing distributed systems internals
• Large scale distributed systems, transactions and consistency models.
• Implementing multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security.
• Designing and implementing systems for public or private clouds.

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $187,000 - $276,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.