Snowflake PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER DEVELOPER PLATFORM 

Germany, Berlin, Berlin 

913810862

As the Developer Platform Principal Software Engineer, YOU WILL:

• Be the voice of the Developer Platform in the company-wide technical architects’ forum and participate in defining the company's future technical directions.
• Define the architectural vision for the developer platform and ensure consistency of design abstractions across the entire product surface.
• Develop innovative platform offerings, with a global mindset, and operate across regional boundaries.
• Promote strong collaboration within a cross-functional team, including design, and product management.
• Deliver features requiring close coordination with several teams such as database change management, external tools, drivers, or REST APIs.
• Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
• Motivate others to act, create a compelling vision for the future, communicate clearly, and use a collaborative leadership approach.
• Build for scale and high performance.

• Significant software development experience, including 15+ years of experience in product development and shipping world-class developer experiences.
• Distributed system development experience is a big plus.
• Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance, and scale.
• Experience in the software development lifecycle process, including analysis and design, APIs, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high-impact customer-facing projects.
• Experience in modern technologies such as Java, Python, Go, Javascript, or C#.
• Experience with building dev tools and experiences, REST APIs, testing frameworks, drivers, etc.

• Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.
• Create an intuitive, elegant, and accessible developer experience that makes a powerful and highly technical product simple to use.
• Learn about and contribute to:
• Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
• Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
• User interfaces bridge the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.