Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - METADATA SNOWGRID 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

314452807

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - SNOWGRID, YOU WILL:

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.

• Manage petabyte scale data supporting most critical globally deployed applications

• Build the next generation replication platform to reduce time to market across Snowflake features

• Have the opportunity to work on various background services that power Snowflake's proprietary multi-level metadata system to support fast compilation and query optimization.

• Design, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system comprising many technologies.

• Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever growing request rate of our database

• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them

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

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 5+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.

• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java (or other similar procedural object-oriented language) is preferred.

• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.

• Knowledge of database internals is a big plus.

• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred
  

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $287,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.