Principal Software Engineer, Snowflake
Cloud Services
$235-368k
+ Bonus and equity
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
$235-368k
+ Bonus and equity
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
- We’re hiring talented Cloud Services Engineers that are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex challenges and automate those solutions
- To be successful, you’ll need to be technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers
- You possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills
- You have software development fundamentals, systems knowledge, and troubleshooting abilitie
- Ideally, you’re an expert on at least one major cloud provider and have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code
- If you love solving problems at scale, prefer to write scalable, reliable, and testable software, are an ace troubleshooter, and are deeply technical, then this is the role for you!
- 15 years of industry experience in software development
- Multiple years experience with: Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP, or others) Database systems (FoundationDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
- Experience in programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, C++
- Experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
- Experience with Cloud computing toolsets - Terraform, Vault, Packer etc
- Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Pulumi, Chef, Puppet)
- Firm grasp of TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting
- Good knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, cloud computing patterns
- Tremendous attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems
- Effective communication and collaboration skills
- Solid interpersonal skills conducive to a team environment
- Able to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues
- Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving
- Experience and knowledge of Git, JIRA, and Jenkins a plus
- Bachelor’s or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field
- The position may require access to U.S. export-controlled technologies or technical data
What the job involves
- You’ll be part of the cloud engineering organization where we have a strong focus on using engineering and software practices to manage and scale our cloud infrastructure
- As part of the organization who owns the relationships with our Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) you will be building products that improve the scalability of Snowflake
- You’ll understand the CSP roadmap and products, and lead initiatives aimed at infrastructure, process, systems, and automation to achieve better efficiency and reliability. You will also discover bottlenecks, limitations, and new feature requests that influence the cloud ecosystem of products directly
- Eventually, you will act as an architect between CSP and Snowflake services
- You’ll build a deep understanding of Snowflake's service and use that knowledge to optimize and evolve our infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, and profitability
- As part of that you will contribute to building components of Virtual CSP (vCSP) layer, a cloud-agnostic approach to feature development within Snowflake. vCSP will help ease feature development to meet customers where they are–or want to be–faster than we do today
- You’ll work with some of the brightest engineers on the planet
- 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 our various teams to ensure those best practices get applied
- Utilize your 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
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
Articles
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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