THE OPPORTUNITIES OF THIS ROLE:

• Work across functions and across teams - we don’t only work on code that we own, we work with other parts of Snowflake every day 
• Learn about and contribute to query engine internals, performance debugging, building highly scalable and maintainable systems, and much more
• Snowpark is still in an early stage of development - it is an amazing opportunity for outsized impact on our customers and Snowflake’s growth story
• Our team culture is a priority - transparency, knowledge sharing, fun events, and helping each other are all part of our work environment
• We don’t have a roadmap that is set in stone - you will be part of planning and together we set the roadmap and direction

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE MOST OF THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excitement to learn new things - passion to learn and grow are key to success on this team
• 6+ years of experience building complex distributed systems
• Be a team player - help others, be respectful with each other, and do your part to make the work day fun and impactful
• Experience with one of the following is required:
  • Identifying and overcoming performance bottlenecks
  • Identifying and overcoming scalability challenges
  • Working on a database or data warehouse
  • Working on a scalable and distributed system in public or private clouds
  • Working on security sandboxing technologies such as gVisor, nsjail, ptrace
  • We mainly write code in C++ and Java, but expertise is not a prerequisite

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
• Build highly reliable software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
• Enhance the programmability surface of Snowflake and improve the experience of the data developer.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

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.