Principal Software Engineer, Snowflake

Platform Infrastructure Engineering

$243-379.5k

Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan

MongoDB

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Java

Cassandra

Terraform

C++

ELK

Jenkins

Ansible

Saltstack

Azure

Puppet

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

JIRA

Git

Pulumi

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

3-5 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)

AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building

Open for applications

AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceData storageEnterpriseAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaSData AnalysisCloud ComputingData Sharing

Open for applications

$243-379.5k

Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan

MongoDB

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Java

Cassandra

Terraform

C++

ELK

Jenkins

Ansible

Saltstack

Azure

Puppet

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

JIRA

Git

Pulumi

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

3-5 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceData storageEnterpriseAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaSData AnalysisCloud ComputingData Sharing

Company mission

On a mission to mobilize the world's data.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

To be successful, you’ll need to be technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers
You possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills
You have software development fundamentals, systems knowledge, and troubleshooting abilities
Ideally, you’re an expert on at least one major cloud provider and have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code
If you love solving problems at scale, prefer to write scalable, reliable, and testable software, are an ace troubleshooter, and are deeply technical, then this is the role for you!
10-15 or more years experience with:
Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP, or others)
Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker/ContainerD)
Distributed Database systems (FoundationDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
Experience in programming in at least one or more of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, or C++
Experience with Observability systems - Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc
Experience with Cloud Computing toolsets - Pulumi, Terraform, Vault, Packer etc
Experience with Configuration Management/Orchestration tools (Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet)
Firm grasp of TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting
Tremendous attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems
Effective communication and collaboration skills
Solid interpersonal skills conducive to a team environment
Able to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues
Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving
Experience and knowledge of Git, JIRA, and Jenkins a plus
Bachelor’s or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field

What the job involves

You’ll be part of the cloud engineering organization where we have a strong focus on using engineering and software practices to manage and scale our cloud infrastructure
As part of the organization who owns the relationships with our Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) you will be building products that improve the scalability of Snowflake
You’ll understand the CSP roadmap and products, and lead initiatives aimed at infrastructure, process, systems, and automation to achieve better efficiency and reliability
You will also discover bottlenecks, limitations, and new feature requests that influence the cloud ecosystem of products directly
Eventually, you will act as an architect between CSP and Snowflake services
You’ll build a deep understanding of Snowflake's service and use that knowledge to optimize and evolve our infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, and profitability
As part of that you will contribute to building components of Virtual CSP (vCSP) layer, a cloud-agnostic approach to feature development within Snowflake
VCSP will help ease feature development to meet customers where they are–or want to be–faster than we do today
Introduce tools to facilitate greater automation and operability of services
Architect, deploy, and scale observability infrastructure
Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services
Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime
Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable
Work closely with our various teams to ensure those best practices get applied
Utilize your deep experience and problem solving skills to help prevent and investigate production issues
Plan and lead complicated technical projects that interact with a wide variety of teams within the company
Take a data-first approach that helps define the investments of the world's largest cloud service providers

Our take

Developed as a fresh alternative to the archaic systems of data governance and information silos, Snowflake is a frictionless cloud data platform that removes the barriers preventing organisations of all sizes from unleashing the true value of their data.

The company equips organizations with a single, integrated platform that offers the only data warehouse built for the cloud; instant, secure and governed access to their entire network of data; and a core architecture to enable many types of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications.

Major competitors include Azure, SQL and AWS, and Snowflake has managed to keep ahead of the competition, cementing itself as a global force. Across its 1300+ partners, the company's cloud manages over 250PB of data (with more than 515 million data workloads running every day). Its continued focus on product R&D and partnership expansion have Snowflake well-positioned to manage itself amidst the competition.

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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

37% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Feb 2020

$479m

LATE VC

Oct 2018

$450m

LATE VC

Total funding: $1.4bn

Company benefits

Comprehensive health insurance plans
Health savings accounts
Robust retirement plans
Life and disability insurance
Weekly online lunch and learns
Virtual workout classes
Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
On-demand mental health and wellness programs
Fertility benefits and family planning resources
Generous time-off and various leave plans
Onsite and Remote Work
Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Quarterly bonus or commission program

Company HQ

Menlo Park, CA

Leadership

Benoit Dageville

(Co-Founder & President of Product)

Benoit, a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning databases, founded Snowflake after 10+ years at Oracle as a lead architect. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has 270+ patents.

Thierry Cruanes

(Co-Founder)

Thierry is a leading expert in query optimization and parallel execution. He has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Database Systems and is a named inventor on 200+ patents.

Sridhar Ramaswamy

(Chief Executive Officer)

Sridhar joined Snowflake in 2023 via the Neeva acquisition as SVP of AI and later became CEO. He co-founded Neeva and previously led Google’s Ads business, growing it from $1.5B to $100B.

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