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Senior Software Engineer - App Foundation

AT Snowflake
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer - App Foundation

San Mateo, CA

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

Snowflake started with a clear vision: make modern data warehousing effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Because traditional on-premises and cloud solutions struggle with this, Snowflake developed an innovative product with a new built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. We are now a global, world-class organization with offices in more than a dozen countries and serving many more.

About the team

App Foundation's backend team is powering systems and services for Snowsight, Snowflake's cutting-edge UI. Our mission is to craft innovative backend services, features, tools and infrastructure that bring Snowsight to life with delightful user experiences. As part of our team, you'll dive into a mix of creating features and managing the robust infrastructure that supports them. We're passionate about building a platform that is highly reliable, available, maintainable, and scalable. We are a high growth SaaS company and we are looking for exceptional talent like you to help build and grow our infrastructure to scale us to the next level.

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What you'll do
  • Services: Design, build and maintain a set of common services and features like authentication, session management, notifications, caching and many more that our front end experiences need.
  • Developer Platform: Design, develop and maintain modules and recipes that full stack teams can leverage to develop, build and maintain their own services
  • Developer Environments: Provide backend environments so internal developers can iterate quickly and safely
  • Infrastructure: Automate and run our global fleet of services deployed across multiple cloud provider (AWS, Azure and GCP) regions.
OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
  • 10+ years industry experience working on reliable large-scale cloud SaaS environments supporting mission critical, highly-concurrent, high-throughput and low-latency systems.
  • Experience leading teams as well as the ability to be an individual contributor and solve deep technical challenges.
  • Deep understanding of relational databases and/or key value stores. Experience with Postgres and Redis is desirable.
  • At least 3+ years experience in Kubernetes. Experience with Amazon EKS, Azure AKS or Google GKE highly desired.
  • Good knowledge of distributed systems, APIs and cloud computing patterns
  • Firm grasp of IP networking, load balancing and DNS.
  • Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

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.


The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

Client-provided location(s): San Mateo, CA, USA
Job ID: Snowflake-SNCOUS1CE100642C7345F2AB143D5EFA67AD6AEXTERNALENUS9A9CF04C73CB4EF69DCBB726145AD3F9
Employment Type: Full Time