Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.
We're hiring talented Senior Software Engineers to join us! The position will work directly with our engineering team in San Mateo, CA to evolve our elastic, large scale, high-performance computing environment. We need strong engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies! This role has the potential to work in a variety of product areas, including making contributions to open source big data projects.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
- 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
- Contribute to big data open source projects to add connectivity and support for Snowflake
- 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
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- 7+ years industry experience designing and building distributed systems, database systems, compilers, or other enterprise cloud data platforms
- Experience building enterprise grade, reliable and trustworthy software or services
- Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills
- Fluency in Java and/or C++
- Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers
- Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office
- Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field
- SQL and/or other database technologies including internal implementations
- Data warehouse architecture, design, and experience working with large-scale data processing solutions
- ASF open source projects, ideally from the big-data/Hadoop ecosystem
- Implementation testing, debugging, documentation, query compilation, compiler design and implementation
- Cloud infrastructure, AWS in particular
- Delivering compelling experiences in SaaS or web-based solutions
- Implementing multi-tenant systems, with focus on isolation and security
- Designing and implementing systems for public or private clouds
As a member of our team, you will:
- Build an industry-leading data management system that customers love
- Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
- Learn about and contribute to the most robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily
- Learn about and contribute to a highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines
- Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
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?