Principal Software Engineer, Snowflake

Test Frameworks

$235-368k

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

SQL

JavaScript

Python

Java

C++

Golang

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)

AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building

Job no longer available

AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceData storageEnterpriseAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaSData AnalysisCloud ComputingData Sharing

Job no longer available

$235-368k

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

SQL

JavaScript

Python

Java

C++

Golang

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, 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

A strong desire and passion for automation, quality, and developer productivity
Experience in distributed systems and systems engineering. Experiences with databases/SQL a strong bonus but not required
Experience in one or more of the following: intelligent test selection, continuous integration infrastructure, enterprise build systems, web service APIs, IDE plugins, command-line tool development, static and dynamic code analysis
Expertise in our core languages (Python, Java) and preferably strong experience with one or more of the following: C++, Javascript, GoLang
Strong working knowledge of software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, operational readiness, etc
Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, especially in a cloud environment
Great communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external developers
Strong opinions about testing, test tooling/software, test approaches, and quality initiatives
Genuine enjoyment of the art of building great software, and a love of learning new things
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science equivalent majors or above

What the job involves

As an engineer in the Test Frameworks team, you will be working on challenging problems building cutting edge infrastructure and tools for Snowflakes around the globe
Build the next generation of test infrastructure, across the various teams of the company, but opinionated enough to provide stability across the engineering organization
Build cutting edge tooling to support automatic culprit finding across dozens-to-thousands of environments and systems-under-test, failure clustering, and automation to support quality-gates
Build highly intuitive, self-service interfaces for developer environments, builds, and tests in the end-to-end development lifecycle
Make dramatic improvements to the developer productivity by creating and improving the systems that we use to validate and report on our product

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.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Feb 2020

$479m

SERIES G

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.

Salary benchmarks

We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.

Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.

Share this job

View 186 more jobs at Snowflake