Software Engineer - Control Plane

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.

The Control Plane team is responsible for the core infrastructure necessary to deploy and maintain Snowflake on a global scale across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Our goal is to maintain and grow our infrastructure in an efficient, reliable, and uniform way. We rely on a software-first approach to infrastructure with an automation platform that is used by engineers inside Snowflake. We are part of the wider Platform and Infrastructure team at Snowflake.

We are looking for a highly motivated software engineer who has worked in highly available, large-scale distributed systems. This is a high-impact, highly-visible team that is critical to Snowflake's core product offerings and revenue.

• 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 automation platform

• Implement reliable systems and patterns to manage infrastructure at scale

• Lead and contribute to building and maintaining a roadmap for the area and team.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with engineers, product managers, and Technical Program Managers across teams.

• 2-5 years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.

• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

• Strong experience in Go or other concurrent programming languages, especially in multi-threading or concurrency.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code

• Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as anessential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure anconfidential.

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 $157,000 - $230,000.
• 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?