Principal Software Engineer

AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL: 

• Plan, lead, and execute complex technical projects that interact with a wide variety of teams within the company.
• Provide significant hands-on technical contribution as well as oversight in multiple functional areas of the product.
• Provide the technical and strategic direction to define and build a full eco-system of technologies and technical roadmap and vision.
• Develop and lead new ideas and innovations.
• Make contributions at the company-wide level with longer-term objectives, usually 1-3 years in duration.
• Be a key decision-maker on technical or business issues, which significantly impacts roles and responsibilities of others.
• Lead improvements to product stability and reliability, on-call and service health, customer support, diagnosability and manageability of the product.
• Influence leadership on technical direction and product/team investment/pivot needs.
• Work closely with our product, engineering and support teams to identify customer pain points and opportunities leading to building solutions that delights customers and unleash innovations.
• Mentor and guide other senior and junior engineers and grow a strong technical expertise in the team.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE MOST OF THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:

• 12+ years of industry experience building large scale container based compute infrastructure platforms that accelerates product innovations.
• 6+ years of experience building large scale distributed, fault-tolerant services.
• Experience building technical vision and delivering on it through concrete products.
• Experience building enterprise grade, reliable and maintainable infrastructure software or services.
• Experience building products or services with Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience in the AI and ML domain on the infrastructure side is a significant plus.
• Fluency in Java or Python required.
• Thrive in ambiguity and driving 0-1 projects.
• Ability to work in a fast moving team environment and collaborate well in a geographically diverse environment.
• Ability to work on-site in our downtown San Mateo office in a hybrid mode.

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.