Joining this team means architecting the performance, scalability, and service infrastructure that will empower the world's largest enterprises to seamlessly govern their transactional and analytical data in one place. If you are passionate about building industry-leading technologies that solve real-world scale and performance problems, this is the place to be. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our core product: an elastic, large-scale, high-performance data processing system. We are looking for smart, enthusiastic engineers who can quickly master complex technical areas and are passionate about building new, industry-leading technologies.
AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL
Participate in the development of a unique distributed database system combining high scalability and performance with rich ACID transactions.
Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements.
Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms to maintain Snowflake's industry-leading data warehousing capabilities.
Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system, ensuring it is highly parallel and fault-tolerant.
Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud.
Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system.
Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout.
Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting our customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance.
Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies.
Develop tools to provide customers with greater insight into their workloads.
Evangelize best practices for database usage and end-to-end system architecture.
Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers on the team.
OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE
8+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
Strong fluency in C++ or Java.
Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Strong systems programming skills, including experience with multi-threading and concurrency.
A solid foundation in distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, scaling, failure recovery).
Experience with implementation testing, debugging, and documentation, specifically within a Linux development environment.
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred..
Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING
SQL or other database technologies including internal design and implementation.
Query optimization, query execution, compiler design and implementation.
Experience with internals of distributed key value stores like FoundationDB and storage engines like RocksDB, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB etc.
Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL internals
Data warehouse design, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions like Hadoop and Spark.
Experience in database replication technology
Big data storage technologies and their applications, e.g., HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
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?
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