Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.
We're hiring a talented Senior Software Engineer to help us build a world class developer platform to fuel the Snowflake Data Cloud. As an engineer in the Engineering Systems (ES) team you will play a central role in delivering the next generation of tools used by our world-class engineers to develop our flagship product. Together with industry-wide experts in distributed systems, cross-cloud development and engineering excellence, you will evolve our developer infrastructure and tooling to be elastic, large-scale, and highly performant with simplicity at its core.
As a software engineer in the ES team, you will help Snowflake realize its mission and vision of becoming the premier Data Cloud by accelerating the delivery of our high quality software to production. You will be a key stakeholder in our company-wide migration of the build and test infrastructure to Bazel. You will help drive clarity on our strategy and will partner with product managers to chart the quarterly and long-term roadmaps for the team. You will ensure that the team is executing towards serving the current needs of its customers, while also ensuring that we stay ahead of technological trends and future demands.
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OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
- Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
- 7+ years industry experience developing tools for large monorepo-based codebases.
- A track record of flawless technical execution.
- Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Experience working with the Bazel build system and/or its internals.
- Fluency in Java, C++, Python or Go.
- Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
- A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
- Outstanding written and oral English language skills.
- Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA offices.
- Experience with the Bazel production ecosystem (e.g. BuildBarn, BuildBuddy).
- Experience with the integration between Bazel and IDEs such as IntelliJ and VSCode.
- Experience with IntelliJ plugin development
- Developing data or distributed systems internals.
- Experience with CI/CD Platforms (e.g. Jenkins, Nexus, Artifactory, gitlab)
- Experience with Kubernetes, ArgoCD and Helm.
- Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security.
- Experience working on enterprise-grade build systems.
- Experience with shell scripting (e.g. bash).
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?