Senior Software Engineer, Snowflake
Cloud Engineering
This role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan
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
This role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan
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
- BS/CS, MS/CS or equivalent
- At least 6+ years experience in a platform or Cloud team building and supporting mission critical services and infrastructure in a SaaS environment
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, coding skills, and knowledge of SDLC best practices
- At least 3+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Fluent in one or more languages (Golang, Java, Python, C)
- Expertise in at least one of the following areas: container platform development and operation, automation, networking, edge computing, config management, infrastructure as code solutions such as Pulumi and Terraform
- Tremendous attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems
- Effective communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
- A strong work ethic, ability to self-manage and drive project success, and a passion for problem solving
What the job involves
- The Cloud Engineering team drives development of an innovative platform; builds foundational primitives such as traffic management, compute, and infrastructure automation to abstract away Snowflake's multi-cloud footprint, making it easy for Snowflake product teams to deploy software
- What our teams build allow engineers across the company to move manual operational tasks into code
- Our team also owns the process of deploying Snowflake globally across multiple cloud providers, using our own platform to automate rollout and management of cloud infrastructure at a scale few companies can match
- Our Cloud Engineering team builds database automation, manages traffic, builds infrastructure automation, and compute platform and scales our production environment
- You will build a deep understanding of Snowflake’s infrastructure and services
- You will use that knowledge, coupled with your existing infrastructure and cloud experience, to optimize and evolve our infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, performance, and cost efficiency
- You’ll lead and contribute to initiatives aimed at scaling our processes, systems, services and automation
- To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own alongside strong peers
- You will have the opportunity to present and defend engineering proposals that can have a significant impact on the success of our team and the company as a whole
- As part of our team, you will be supporting other teams as they use our platform, so you must possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to demonstrate infrastructure and cloud expertise
- You must have the ability to take large, complex projects from conception to completion with minimal guidance
- In addition, you will be expected to mentor and support more junior team members, leading by example with excellent code quality, documentation, and SDLC best practices
- Contribute to the team charter to build and operate highly scalable and resilient, scalable, and performant infrastructure
- Research and implement solutions to build a highly reliable and scalable platform, tools, infrastructure, automation and systems in the cloud
- Evangelize and drive adoption of the platform to meet business goals
- Provide technical leadership on complex and challenging projects in the automation and cloud infrastructure space
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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