Principal Software Engineer, Snowflake
Developer Platform
AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
Job no longer available
AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- Your passion for delighting customers and your deep expertise in creating exceptional developer experiences will help us build the future of the AI Data Cloud
- Significant software development experience, including 15+ years of experience in product development and shipping world-class developer experiences
- Distributed system development experience is a big plus
- Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance, and scale
- Experience in the software development lifecycle process, including analysis and design, APIs, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high-impact customer-facing projects
- Experience in modern technologies such as Java, Python, Go, Javascript, or C#
- Experience with building dev tools and experiences, REST APIs, testing frameworks, drivers, etc
What the job involves
- As the Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for building a unified experience across the Snowflake platform and tools
- Oin us and contribute to a platform that empowers users to achieve more with their data
- Be the voice of the Developer Platform in the company-wide technical architects’ forum and participate in defining the company's future technical directions
- Define the architectural vision for the developer platform and ensure consistency of design abstractions across the entire product surface
- Develop innovative platform offerings, with a global mindset, and operate across regional boundaries
- Promote strong collaboration within a cross-functional team, including design, and product management
- Deliver features requiring close coordination with several teams such as database change management, external tools, drivers, or REST APIs
- Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning
- Motivate others to act, create a compelling vision for the future, communicate clearly, and use a collaborative leadership approach
- Build for scale and high performance
- Building cutting-edge cloud technologies is complex, and our engineering team surmounts the obstacles
- Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love
- Create an intuitive, elegant, and accessible developer experience that makes a powerful and highly technical product simple to use
- Learn about and contribute to:
- Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily
- Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines
- User interfaces bridge the enterprise world with the consumer experience
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.
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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.
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