Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - COMPUTE SERVICE 

United States, California 

691186922

• 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.

• 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.

• 6+ 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 preferred.

• 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.

• Build an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.

• Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!

• Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.

• Learn about and contribute to:

  • Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries daily.

  • Highly-scalable and reliable cloud platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.

  • Optimizing performance and resource management in Java systems.

  • Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

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.