Principal Software Engineer, Snowflake

Cloud Services

$235-368k

+ Bonus and equity

MongoDB
AWS
GCP
Python
Java
Go
Cassandra
Terraform
C++
Jenkins
Ansible
Azure
Puppet
Chef
Snowflake
JIRA
Git
Pulumi
Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

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

Snowflake

Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud

Job no longer available

Snowflake

Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceData storageEnterpriseAnalyticsMachine LearningSaaSData AnalysisCloud ComputingData Sharing

Job no longer available

$235-368k

+ Bonus and equity

MongoDB
AWS
GCP
Python
Java
Go
Cassandra
Terraform
C++
Jenkins
Ansible
Azure
Puppet
Chef
Snowflake
JIRA
Git
Pulumi
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.

Role

Who you are

  • We’re hiring talented Cloud Services Engineers that are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex challenges and automate those solutions
  • 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 abilitie
  • 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!
  • 15 years of industry experience in software development
  • Multiple years experience with: Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP, or others) Database systems (FoundationDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
  • Experience in programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, C++
  • Experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
  • Experience with Cloud computing toolsets - Terraform, Vault, Packer etc
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Pulumi, Chef, Puppet)
  • Firm grasp of TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting
  • Good knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, cloud computing patterns
  • 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
  • The position may require access to U.S. export-controlled technologies or technical data

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
  • You’ll work with some of the brightest engineers on the planet
  • 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

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Insights

Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

37% employee growth in 12 months

Company

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

Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)

Feb 2020

$479m

LATE VC

Oct 2018

$450m

LATE VC

Total funding: $1.4bn

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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