Senior Software Engineer

Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.

We own the platform that manages the lifecycle of all of Snowflake’s data warehouse workloads. We build infrastructure that perform request routing, metadata persistence and monitoring, error handling, and request retry.

The team also owns the query APIs into Snowflake and the platform is responsible for shepherding every single request from first request to completion. Come join us as the team solves hard problems to support new workloads, improve query performance, improve reliability as we ensure exactly once semantics in a heavily distributed environment.

Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it. In our effort to enable our Data Cloud vision, we are actively hiring talented distributed systems engineers. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, large scale, high-performance computing environment.

• 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.
• 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 SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 4+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.
• Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant infrastructure.

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.

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?

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.