Principal Software Engineer, Snowflake

• Strong passion for making developers highly productive
• 15+ years industry experience developing and maintaining world-scale infrastructure and distributed systems
• Fluency in Java, C++, Python or Go
• Expertise in:
• Kubernetes
• Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security
• Authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs
• A track record of technical execution and technical leadership
• A passion for operational excellence, and willingness to hold yourself and others to a high operational bar
• A track record for mentoring and guiding senior and staff engineers; fostering best practices in coding, testing, and automation
• A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Outstanding communicator, both written and verbal skills
• Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA offices
• We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake

Desirable

• We’re hiring a talented Principal Software Engineer to help us build a world class developer platform to fuel the Snowflake Data Cloud
• As an engineering leader in the ES (Engineering Systems) team, you will play a central role in delivering the next generation of tools used by our engineers to develop our flagship product
• Together with industry-wide experts in distributed systems, cross-cloud development and engineering excellence, you will evolve our developer infrastructure and tooling to be secure, elastic, large-scale, and highly performant with simplicity at its core