Senior Software Engineer - Warehouse

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake's founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn't stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.

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 developers. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, large scale, high-performance computing environment.

The Warehouse team is responsible for the control plane, lifecycle, and usability of the Snowflake Virtual Warehouse. The systems we own manage fleets of tens of thousands of servers and are responsible for the scheduling and execution of millions of jobs per day. The reliability, scalability, and performance of the Warehouse is mission-critical to Snowflake's vision of providing a world-class Data Engineering and Analytics experience to our customers. We are looking for highly motivated senior software engineers with in-depth experience in distributed systems, control plane, or resource management systems at very large scales.

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our 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, and collaborate with engineers, product managers, and Technical Program Managers across teams.

• 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.

• 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.

• Build an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.

• Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!

• Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.

• Learn about and contribute to:

  • Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries daily.

  • Highly-scalable and reliable cloud platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.

  • Optimizing performance and resource management in Java systems.

• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

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?

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is .
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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?