Snowflake PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DATA LAKE 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

554426300

• Understand customer requirements and define product strategies
• Design, develop, and operate highly reliable large scale data lake systems
• Embrace Snowflake innovations with open source standards and tool sets
• Be an active influencer for the direction of open source standards
• Partner closely with Product teams to understand requirements and design cutting edge new capabilities that go directly into customer’s hands
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them
• Ensure operational excellence of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability, and performance
• Set technical directions and influence cross-functional teams

• 15+ years of hands-on direct internal experience in large scale data intensive distributed systems, especially in query engines, object storage, data warehouse, data lake, data analytics, SQL/NoSQL databases, distributed file systems and data platform infrastructure
• Proven track record of leading and delivering multi-year large and complicated projects across organizations
• Strong development skills in Java and C++.
• An active PMC (Program Management Committee) or Committer to open sources like Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Spark, Hive, Flink, Delta, Presto, Trino, and Avro
• A growth mindset and excitement about breaking the status quo by seeking innovative solutions
• An excellent team player who is consistent in making everyone around you better
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $327,700.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.