Snowflake SENIOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEER 

United States, California 

413997338

• 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 query platform.

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

• Leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams

• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and availability 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.

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

• Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services.

• 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.

• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java is preferred.

• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.

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

• Experience building data focused systems at cloud scale.

• 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 $246,100 - $376,913.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.