Senior/Principal Software Engineer, Snowflake
Traffic
$214-327.7k
+Bonus & Equity
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
Open for applications
Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$214-327.7k
+Bonus & Equity
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for talented and passionate Senior Software Engineers to join our Traffic & Edge team
- BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related major, or equivalent experience
- A track record of planning, running and delivering cross team projects
- Experience with at least one advanced programming language such as C++, Java, Go, Python
- Experience with running HTTP, DNS and TLS infrastructure
- Hands on experience with one of more public cloud providers such as AWS/Azure/GCP
- Experience with Traffic/Edge Engineering or Cloud Networking
- Experience with automating operations (e.g., software deployments, config changes) at scale
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet)
- Experience with core SRE/Production Engineering best practices (e.g., designing for operability and scalability, adopting SLOs, eliminating toil, leading incident responses, driving blameless post-mortems)
- Evidence of engineering leadership through design ownership and reviews, mentoring, contributing to technical roadmaps, and driving process improvements
What the job involves
- The Snowflake Cloud Engineering team is a global team of high performing engineers focused on building best in class tooling, automation, and a scalable infrastructure platform to run the Snowflake service
- The team’s focus areas include Snowflake's global scale multi-cloud infrastructure, core platform services, edge traffic delivery, and reliability engineering
- The team also automates the deployment of the Snowflake production service across dozens of regions and major cloud providers
- Snowflake’s Traffic and Edge infrastructure consists of reverse proxy and load balancing systems running in multiple public clouds
- These systems deal with DNS management, TLS termination, load balancing, CDNs, and traffic routing
- Every incoming request into Snowflake flows through or relies on these systems
- The critical nature of these services demands a very high level of reliability
- As more and more customers globally start using Snowflake in a variety of ways, the Edge will need to support more features and sustain higher throughput while remaining reliable
- We have been on a significant growth journey at Snowflake, with the volumes of data constantly accelerating, and as such there will be substantial opportunities to drive reliability, security, and performance improvements at the Traffic & Edge layer
- Further, Snowflake’s focus on building a truly multi-cloud service drives us to create elegant abstractions to enable rapid iteration and product delivery
- Design, lead and own significant projects with an impact felt far beyond your team
- Contribute to the design and operation of our highly reliable, secure, scalable, and performant infrastructure
- Develop the software to grow our fleet of services and deployments
- Participate in our on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services
- Use your deep experience and problem solving skills to help investigate and fix production issues, and drive blameless incident post-mortems to document learnings and prevent recurrences
- Plan and lead complex technical projects while partnering with a wide variety of teams within the company
- 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
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 organizations 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
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 values
- Put Customers First - We only succeed when our customers succeed
- Integrity Always - Be open, honest and respectful
- Think Big - Be ambitious and have big goals
- Be Excellent - Quality and excellence count in everything we do
- Get It Done - Results matter. Work hard and smart
- Own It - Build our product and our company like it’s yours, because it is
- Make Each Other the Best - Treat people with kindness and respect
- Embrace Each Other's Differences - Accept and appreciate everyone from every walk of life
Company HQ
Bozeman, MT
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Leadership
Benoit Dageville
(Co-Founder)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.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Snowflake
- At Snowflake, embracing each others’ differences is a core value of our organization. We recognize and appreciate the importance of creating an environment in which all employees feel valued, included, and empowered to do their best work and bring great ideas to the table. Promoting the values of diversity and fostering an inclusive workplace culture takes each of us working together, caring deeply, and acting intentionally.
- Since Day 1, Snowflake and its culture belong to each of us, We “own it.” Owning it means we continually look for ways to improve and it’s in that spirit that our Diversity Council was formed. Our Council spans every functional area with an eye towards diverse representation across a range of demographics - 50% female, 50% persons of color, 21% LGBTQ, 7% persons with disabilities, and four generations. The Council narrowed in on three priority areas to focus our initiatives and impact positive change.
- 1. Enabling employee and community readiness by creating focus groups and using data to reveal deeper insights into our community and our specific needs and challenges to guide our future efforts and target initiatives.
- 2. Empowering employees’ voices by organizing outlets for conversation, spotlighting different employee stories, building mentorship programs, and supporting cultural inclusion.
- 3. Building external partnerships to broaden demographic representation in our candidate pipeline and educational partnerships to enable equitable opportunities for generations to come.
- As a company of action, we are committed to managing and measuring our forward progress around diversity and inclusion. And because we are a data company, the approach of gaining insights from the data, setting targets, measuring results, and iterating is in our DNA. We have put in place the foundational groundwork to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion for right now and for the future of Snowflake.
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