Senior Software Engineer - Warehouse

Snowflake Computing • San Mateo, CA

392d

About The Position

The Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining the Snowflake Virtual Warehouse, which is essential for managing large-scale distributed systems. This position focuses on solving complex business needs through software engineering, ensuring high availability and performance of services, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive initiatives that align with Snowflake's vision of a world-class Data Engineering and Analytics experience.

Requirements

• 6+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting large scale systems in production.
• Experience designing and building large scale distributed fault-tolerant services.
• Excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, and storage, performance and scale.
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Strong experience in Java or other object-oriented languages, especially in multi-threading or concurrency.
• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

Responsibilities

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for the services layer.
• Lead and contribute to building and maintaining a roadmap for the area and team.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and Technical Program Managers across teams.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability, and costs to build solutions that meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet commitments to customers regarding availability and performance.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Flexible spending & health savings account
• At least 12 paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Employee assistance program
• Other company benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree