Principal Software Engineer - Elastic Global Services

As a Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake you will:

• Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our cloud services.

• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.

• Mentor and grow junior engineers.

• 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:

• 15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.

• Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant infrastructure.

• Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.

• Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including. multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.

• Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.

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.

• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.