Snowflake SOFTWARE ENGINEER - COMPUTE 

United States, California 

372802135

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

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our services layer.

• Lead and contribute to building and maintaining a roadmap for the area and team.

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

• Lead cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with engineers, product managers, and Technical Program Managers across teams.

• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.

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

• 2-5 years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.

• Experience designing and building large scale distributed fault tolerant services

• Experience in designing, building, maintaining or enhancing high-scale job schedulers.

• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.

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

• Strong experience in Java or other object oriented languages, especially in multi-threading or concurrency.

• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

• 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 .
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.