AS A SENIOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
Solving 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.
Deal with data correctness problems at large scale across thousands of customers.
Leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating 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.
OUR IDEAL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
9+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
2+ years experience in leading a group of junior and senior engineers.
Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring.
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.
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?
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 $187,000 - $338,100.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.