Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - SNOWPARK 

United States, California 

592765140

• Work across functions and across teams - we don’t only work on code that we own, we work with other parts of Snowflake every day
• Learn about and contribute to query engine internals, performance debugging, building highly scalable and maintainable systems, and much more
• Snowpark is still in an early stage of development - it is an amazing opportunity for outsized impact on our customers and Snowflake’s growth story
• Our team culture is a priority - transparency, knowledge sharing, fun events, and helping each other are all part of our work environment
• We don’t have a roadmap that is set in stone - you will be part of planning and together we set the roadmap and direction

• Excitement to learn new things - passion to learn and grow are key to success on this team
• 6+ years of experience building complex distributed systems
• Be a team player - help others, be respectful with each other, and do your part to make the work day fun and impactful
• Experience with one of the following is required:
  • Identifying and overcoming performance bottlenecks
  • Identifying and overcoming scalability challenges
  • Working on a database or data warehouse
  • Working on a scalable and distributed system in public or private clouds
  • Working on security sandboxing technologies such as gVisor, nsjail, ptrace
  • We mainly write code in C++ and Java, but expertise is not a prerequisite

• Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
• Build highly reliable software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
• Enhance the programmability surface of Snowflake and improve the experience of the data developer.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $327,750.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.