Snowflake PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEER 

United States, California 

30763734

Principal Distributed Systems Engineers

You’ll work with some of the brightest engineers in the industry to deliver impactful results. To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent communication, collaboration and diplomacy skills. You have many years of experience developing, deploying and operating large scale systems.

• Lead significant engineering efforts in the Service team and beyond
• Lead improvements to scalability, reliability, service health, supportability,observabilityand manageability of the product
• As a domain expert, understand the state of the art, the design of competitive products, and be familiar with research in the area of distributed services
• Develop and lead new ideas and innovations
• Make contributions at the company-wide level with longer-term objectives, usually 1-3 years in duration.
• Be a key decision-maker on technical or business issues, which significantly impacts roles and responsibilities of others
• Regularly explore uncharted territory. Be aware of business trends and emerging technologies even outside the current business and determine how they can be leveraged to the advantage of Snowflake

• 12+ years hands-on software engineering experience
• 6+ years of experience building large scale distributed, fault-tolerant services
• Strong experience with database fundamentals including working with relational data, semi-structured data, and unstructured data
• Strong systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, batching, etc.
• Fluency in Java and C++ required
• Strong experience with service-oriented architectures
• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions
• Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
• Masters or PhD in Computer Science or a related field

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $235,000 - $368,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.