Principal Data Scientist, Snowflake
SQL Team
$180-276k
+ Bonus + Equity plan
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
Open for applications
Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$180-276k
+ Bonus + Equity plan
3-5 days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- MS/Ph.D. in quantitative discipline (CS, Data Science, Engineering, Statistics, or Math)
- 12+ years of relevant data science or related experience
- Expert-level experience working with SQL & Python including scikit-learn, numpy, and pandas
- Expert in working with large-scale machine generated data (e.g., logs, application telemetry, or customer usage data)
- Experience with cloud databases, such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Vertica, etc. is a plus
- Working closely with the engineering and product management teams
- The ability to thrive in a dynamic environment, being flexible and willing to jump in and do whatever it takes to contribute to the success of your area
What the job involves
- The Product Data Science team is looking for a Principal Full-stack Data Scientist to come aboard and be part of some of the foundational areas at Snowflake
- In this role, you will work closely with our Product and Engineering teams on bringing insights to the massive amount of data
- You will also work on long-running analytical initiatives that will yield substantial product enhancements
- This is a strategic, high-impact role that will help shape the future of Snowflake products and services
- Be a proactive partner to Product Management and Engineering to shape feature roadmaps and help design metrics and analytical workflows to evaluate their success and effectiveness
- Architect efficient data models and high-quality production pipelines and partner with Engineering for all necessary telemetry
- Build scalable and extensible analytics/ML frameworks to uncover feature usage patterns, subtle issues with the system, potential performance enhancements, and areas to improve customer experience
- Evaluate the right surface (Snowflake Notebook/Worksheet/Snowsight Dashboards/Streamlit Apps) to disseminate your insights for maximal impact
- Influence decisions and drive initiatives with the Product Management and Engineering teams to drive better outcomes for our customers
- Answer questions from the executive team for reporting to the board and contribute to industry reports and similar publications
- Think creatively and be scrappy to find optimal solutions to our complex, often unstructured problems
Our take
Developed as a fresh alternative to the archaic systems of data governance and information silos, Snowflake is a frictionless cloud data platform that removes the barriers preventing organizations of all sizes from unleashing the true value of their data.
The company equips organizations with a single, integrated platform that offers the only data warehouse built for the cloud; instant, secure and governed access to their entire network of data; and a core architecture to enable many types of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications.
Major competitors include Azure, SQL and AWS, and Snowflake has managed to keep ahead of the competition, cementing itself as a global force. Across its 1300+ partners, the company's cloud manages over 250PB of data (with more than 515 million data workloads running every day). Its continued focus on product R&D and partnership expansion have Snowflake well-positioned to manage itself amidst the competition.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2020
$479m
LATE VC
Oct 2018
$450m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance plans
- Health savings accounts
- Robust retirement plans
- Life and disability insurance
- Weekly online lunch and learns
- Virtual workout classes
- Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
- On-demand mental health and wellness programs
- Fertility benefits and family planning resources
- Generous time-off and various leave plans
- Onsite and Remote Work
- Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
- New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Quarterly bonus or commission program
Company values
- Put Customers First - We only succeed when our customers succeed
- Integrity Always - Be open, honest and respectful
- Think Big - Be ambitious and have big goals
- Be Excellent - Quality and excellence count in everything we do
- Get It Done - Results matter. Work hard and smart
- Own It - Build our product and our company like it’s yours, because it is
- Make Each Other the Best - Treat people with kindness and respect
- Embrace Each Other's Differences - Accept and appreciate everyone from every walk of life
Company HQ
Bozeman, MT
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Leadership
Benoit Dageville
(Co-Founder)Benoit, a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning databases, founded Snowflake after 10+ years at Oracle as a lead architect. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has 270+ patents.
Thierry Cruanes
(Co-Founder)Thierry is a leading expert in query optimization and parallel execution. He has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Database Systems and is a named inventor on 200+ patents.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Snowflake
- At Snowflake, embracing each others’ differences is a core value of our organization. We recognize and appreciate the importance of creating an environment in which all employees feel valued, included, and empowered to do their best work and bring great ideas to the table. Promoting the values of diversity and fostering an inclusive workplace culture takes each of us working together, caring deeply, and acting intentionally.
- Since Day 1, Snowflake and its culture belong to each of us, We “own it.” Owning it means we continually look for ways to improve and it’s in that spirit that our Diversity Council was formed. Our Council spans every functional area with an eye towards diverse representation across a range of demographics - 50% female, 50% persons of color, 21% LGBTQ, 7% persons with disabilities, and four generations. The Council narrowed in on three priority areas to focus our initiatives and impact positive change.
- 1. Enabling employee and community readiness by creating focus groups and using data to reveal deeper insights into our community and our specific needs and challenges to guide our future efforts and target initiatives.
- 2. Empowering employees’ voices by organizing outlets for conversation, spotlighting different employee stories, building mentorship programs, and supporting cultural inclusion.
- 3. Building external partnerships to broaden demographic representation in our candidate pipeline and educational partnerships to enable equitable opportunities for generations to come.
- As a company of action, we are committed to managing and measuring our forward progress around diversity and inclusion. And because we are a data company, the approach of gaining insights from the data, setting targets, measuring results, and iterating is in our DNA. We have put in place the foundational groundwork to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion for right now and for the future of Snowflake.
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