Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - METADATA CORE 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

830911848

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
• Build the next-generation transaction system, storage engine and metadata framework to support multi-tenant database system and native apps framework
• Design, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system comprising many technologies
• Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever growing request rate of our database
• Design and implement core foundational features including transactions, DDL/DML logs, global messaging mesh as well as advanced features built on top of the metadata, such as cloning, backup/restore and global replication.
• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
• Have the opportunity to work on various background services that power Snowflake's proprietary multi-level metadata system to support fast compilation and query optimization.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.
• Work closely with teams to drive the next generation of metadata framework to better support Snowflake features like ML/AI.

• 5+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java (or other similar procedural object-oriented language) is preferred.
• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.
• Knowledge of database internals is a big plus.
• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred

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.