Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations

Your Impact: From Redesign to Reality

What You Bring

• 15+ years of experience designing and supporting large-scale distributed services.
• Deep Database Internals Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of metadata management, query optimization, clustering, compaction, catalogs, and large-scale data management.
• Systems Mastery: Excellent understanding of distributed systems, durability and correctness fundamentals, multi-threading, memory management, and storage performance.
• Cloud-Scale Track Record: A history of implementing creative, 0->1 solutions for complex problems at massive scale.
• CS Fundamentals: Strong mastery of data structures, algorithms, and the trade-offs between consistency and performance.
• Education: BS in Computer Science; an advanced degree is preferred.
• Why Snowflake?
• Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform, solving challenging technical problems related to security, parallelism, distributed systems, and large-scale system maintenance. Join a world-class team and innovate with rigor.
• 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.
• 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?
• For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com