Principal Distributed Systems Engineer – Cloud-Scale

Snowflake

Menlo Park (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Snowflake in Menlo Park seeks a Principal Software Engineer to design and build scalable distributed cloud services. You will solve real business problems at large scale, mentor junior engineers, and improve fault tolerance and performance across our data platform.

You will work on container orchestration, cluster management, and autoscaling, with deep OS knowledge and expertise in Kubernetes-like systems. Join a world-class team driving Snowflake's infrastructure ahead of the next wave of data

Qualifications

15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.
Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant infrastructure.
Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.

Responsibilities

Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our cloud services.
Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
Mentor and grow junior engineers.
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.