Principal Software Engineer - Data Ingestion Systems
Snowflake | |
$235,000 - $368,000 | |
parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), retirement plan | |
United States, Washington, Bellevue | |
929 108th Avenue Northeast (Show on map) | |
Sep 22, 2024 | |
Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team. The mission of the Snowflake Ingestion team is to empower customers to ingest, and transform their data reliably, accurately, and in real-time. Guided by Snowflake's "no knobs" philosophy, our team focuses on building products that manage orchestration, performance, self-healing, security, and privacy so that customers can focus on their business logic. Leveraging our team's extensive background in building database systems, we create infrastructure that is simple to operate and adaptable to diverse business requirements. We are looking for strong technical leaders to shape the strategy, and lead our strong engineering team through execution of innovative solutions for the Data Ingestion systems of tomorrow. We are in the very early stages of building planet scale ingestion systems that encompass distributed systems, ingestion of unstructured and semi-structured data, distributed queuing, streaming capabilities, and multi-tenant query scheduling. In addition, Snowflake has widely adopted and embraced Apache Iceberg. This brings ample opportunities to spearhead and drive the ingestion strategy to succeed in the new direction. Note: We are not looking for pure data scientists or data engineers. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE MOST OF THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:
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 an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
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? |