Our team is called the Cloud Provisioning team, the core underpinning of what makes Snowflake work across multiple cloud providers. We are creating an abstraction layer between each of our cloud providers and the rest of Snowflake that is optimized for Snowflake's unique needs. We balance usability, cognitive load, performance, and cost for the rest of Snowflake.
We are actively hiring talented distributed systems developers. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the vision, architecture and approach for the core services that the rest of Snowflake operates on.
As a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at Snowflake you will
Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our services layer.
Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
Lead cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams.
Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.
Our ideal Distributed Systems Engineer will have
7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
2+ years experience in leading a group of junior and senior engineers.
Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring.
Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java preferred.
Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.
Experience with cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD preferred.
Why join the Engineering team at Snowflake?
Build an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.
Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.
Learn about and contribute to
Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries daily.
Highly-scalable and reliable cloud platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
Optimizing performance and resource management in Java systems.
Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. 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.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. 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.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
The estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $287,500.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.
The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.
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