Software Engineer - Jobs Platform

Snowflake•Menlo Park, CA

17d

About The Position

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. SOFTWARE ENGINEER - JOB PLATFORM TEAM We’re at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Our ‘get it done’ culture allows everyone at Snowflake to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration. Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it. In our effort to enable our Data Cloud vision, we are actively hiring talented distributed systems engineers. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, large scale, high-performance computing environment. We are the Job Execution Platform, the core engine responsible for processing millions of queries at Snowflake. We are responsible for managing the entire lifecycle and efficient execution of queries at Snowflake. We are looking at expanding our team to handle the next big challenges for Snowflake customers.

Requirements

2-5 years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.
Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant infrastructure.
Experience in scheduling, container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including. multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.

Responsibilities

Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our cloud services.
Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.