Senior Software Engineer - Observability

Snowflake
$214,000 - $327,750
parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, California, San Mateo
Sep 22, 2024
Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team. You'll work with some of the brightest engineers in the valley. To be successful, you'll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, including using tools like Terraform, Ansible. You'll have strong software development fundamentals and skills. In addition, you'll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities. If you love solving problems at scale, prefer to write scalable, reliable, and testable software to automate infrastructure management, are an ace troubleshooter, and are deeply technical, then this is the role for you! AS A SENIOR CLOUD OBSERVABILITY ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Deploy and scale our Observability infrastructure Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable and work with our various teams to get those best practices applied Collaborate with our Application Engineering teams to ensure our Applications are emitting the right metrics Collect, aggregate and visualize the collected metrics to provide actionable insight OUR IDEAL SENIOR CLOUD OBSERVABILITY ENGINEER WILL HAVE: 8+ years of experience in software engineering Excellent interpersonal skills. Strong programming skills Must have CS fundamentals and a track record of implementing highly reliable software Prior experience working alongside an Engineering team to collect, aggregate and visualize insights into a complicated technical product BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: Prior experience with a Cloud infrastructure service provider, or an extensive "private cloud" environment Extremely large installation or High Performance Computing (HPC) experience Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems Prior experience with high performance networks Some position may require access to U.S. export-controlled technologies or technical data 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 estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $327,750. 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?