Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Provisioning Service

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.