Snowflake PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DATA INGESTION SYSTEMS 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

542390959

• You will be part of a highly productive, fast moving, and growing team that is critical to realizing Snowflake’s Data Cloud Mission.
• Plan, lead, and execute complex technical projects that interact with a wide variety of teams within the company.
• Provide significant hands-on technical contribution as well as oversight in multiple functional areas of the product.
• Provide the technical and strategic direction to define and build a full eco-system of technologies and technical roadmap and vision.
• 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.
• Lead improvements to product stability and reliability, on-call and service health, customer support, diagnosability and manageability of the product.
• Influence leadership on technical direction and product/team investment/pivot needs.
• Work closely with our product, engineering and support teams to identify customer pain points and opportunities leading to building solutions that delights customers and unleash innovations.
• Mentor and guide other senior and junior engineers and grow a strong technical expertise in the team

• 12+ years of hands-on direct internal experience in building large scale data intensive distributed systems.
• Experience building technical vision and delivering on it through concrete products.
• Experience building enterprise grade, reliable and maintainable infrastructure software or services.
• Fluency in Java or C++ required
• Thrive in ambiguity and driving 0-1 projects
• Ability to work in a fast moving team environment and collaborate well in a geographically diverse environment
• Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office in a hybrid mode

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.