Principal Software Engineer, Snowflake
Metadata, Germany
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AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
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AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- 14+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- Sharp original thinking to make the right choices and guide teams
- Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, etc. Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred
- Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems
- Knowledge of database internals is a big plus
- Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations
- BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred
What the job involves
- Snowflake Metadata team builds a scalable metadata system that allows Snowflake to query across petabyte-scale data efficiently. The team develops distributed and multi-layered caches, transaction frameworks, declarative entity management, time travel and other core Snowflake services
- It is also responsible for providing the foundation of global features like cross-region replication, data sharing, and data marketplace
- Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
- Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
- Design, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system including a decentralized caching system of terabytes of metadata with an ever growing request rate
- Design and implement core foundational features including transactions, DDL/DML logs, metadata API as well as advanced features built on top of the metadata, such as declarative entity management and integrations to support developer toolchains
- Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance
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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Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
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 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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