Principal Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure Engineering at Snowflake

Menlo Park, California, United States

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$243,000 – $379,500Compensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, Cloud ComputingIndustries

Requirements

  • 10-15 or more years of experience with Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP, or others)
  • Experience with Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker/ContainerD)
  • Experience with Distributed Database systems (FoundationDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
  • Experience in programming in at least one or more of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, or C++
  • Experience with Observability systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
  • Experience with Cloud Computing toolsets (Pulumi, Terraform, Vault, Packer, etc.)
  • Experience with Configuration Management
  • Expert on at least one major cloud provider
  • Experience practicing infrastructure-as-code
  • Software development fundamentals, systems knowledge, and troubleshooting abilities
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills
  • Passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex challenges and automate solutions
  • Technical capability to hold your own with strong peers
  • Love solving problems at scale, writing scalable, reliable, and testable software, and being an ace troubleshooter

Responsibilities

  • Introduce tools to facilitate greater automation and operability of services
  • Architect, deploy, and scale observability infrastructure
  • Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services
  • Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime
  • Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable
  • Work closely with various teams to ensure those best practices get applied
  • Utilize deep experience and problem-solving skills to help prevent and investigate production issues
  • Plan and lead complicated technical projects that interact with a wide variety of teams within the company
  • Take a data-first approach that helps define the investments of the world's largest cloud service providers
  • Understand the CSP roadmap and products, and lead initiatives aimed at infrastructure, process, systems, and automation to achieve better efficiency and reliability
  • Discover bottlenecks, limitations, and new feature requests that influence the cloud ecosystem of products directly
  • Act as an architect between CSP and Snowflake services
  • Build a deep understanding of Snowflake's services to optimize and evolve infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, and profitability
  • Contribute to building components of Virtual CSP (vCSP) layer, a cloud-agnostic approach to feature development within Snowflake

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure
Automation
Scalability
Reliability Engineering
System Architecture
Cloud Service Providers
vCSP
Software Engineering

Snowflake

Data management and analytics platform

About Snowflake

Snowflake provides a platform called the AI Data Cloud that helps organizations manage and analyze their data. This platform allows users to store and process large amounts of data efficiently, offering services like data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, and data sharing. Snowflake's system works by uniting data from different sources, enabling secure sharing and performing various types of analytics. What sets Snowflake apart from its competitors is its ability to operate seamlessly across multiple public clouds, allowing users to access their data from anywhere. The company's goal is to help businesses leverage their data for better decision-making by providing a flexible subscription-based service that scales according to their needs.

Bellevue, WashingtonHeadquarters
2012Year Founded
$1,341.3MTotal Funding
IPOCompany Stage
Data & Analytics, Enterprise Software, AI & Machine LearningIndustries
5,001-10,000Employees

Benefits

We've got your back - We offer comprehensive health insurance plans, health savings accounts, robust retirement plans, and generous life and disability insurance.
A Balanced Lifestyle - All Snowflakes have access to our weekly online lunch and learns, virtual workout classes, and ergonomic work-from-home equipment. We offer on-demand mental health and wellness programs to support our employees and their families.
Your People Matter - Help offset the cost of growing your family with our fertility benefits and family planning resources. Count on our generous time-off and various leave plans for you to rest, refuel, and sustain a great work-life balance.
Global Snowflake Team - No matter where you are in the world, we will get you connected and supported with a work-from-home setup.
Treat Yourself - Personalize your Snowflake benefits by tapping into our employee discounts and pre-tax selections.
Invest In Your Future - Eligible employees enjoy new hire equity, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and a quarterly bonus or commission program.

Risks

Integration challenges from Datavolo acquisition may disrupt operations and customer service.
Increased competition from Mistral AI could challenge Snowflake's market position.
Convertible senior notes pricing may increase financial pressure if market conditions worsen.

Differentiation

Snowflake offers a unified platform for diverse data workloads, unlike traditional solutions.
The AI Data Cloud enables near-unlimited scale and performance for data mobilization.
Snowflake's seamless multi-cloud experience ensures efficient data operations across locations.

Upsides

Acquisition of Datavolo enhances Snowflake's open data integration capabilities.
Investment in Metaplane boosts AI-driven data quality solutions for Snowflake users.
Snowflake Ventures' investment in Hex expands accessibility of data tools to non-technical users.

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