Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Assured$180,000 - $210,000/year
Full Time
Senior (5 to 8 years)
$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
Key technologies and capabilities for this role
Questions & Answers
Common questions about this position
What is the salary range for the Principal Software Engineer role?
The salary range is $243K - $379.5K.
Is this a remote position or does it require office work?
This information is not specified in the job description.
What skills are required for this Principal Software Engineer position?
Key skills include software development fundamentals, systems knowledge, troubleshooting abilities, expertise in at least one major cloud provider, and experience with infrastructure-as-code. Excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills are also essential.
What is the team culture like at Snowflake for this role?
You'll work with some of the brightest engineers on the planet in the cloud engineering organization, which has a strong focus on engineering and software practices to manage and scale cloud infrastructure.
What makes a strong candidate for this Principal Software Engineer role?
Strong candidates are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex challenges at scale, prefer writing scalable, reliable, and testable software, are ace troubleshooters, deeply technical, and capable of holding their own with strong peers.
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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