Principal Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Menlo Ventures; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 243,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Principal Software Engineer - Platform Infrastructure. You will tackle complex challenges in cloud infrastructure, leading initiatives to improve scalability and reliability. The ideal candidate has significant experience with cloud computing and systems programming, ready to make an impact.

Benefits

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

Other company benefits

Qualifications

• 7 - 10 or more years experience in Cloud Computing and related fields.
• Experience in programming in at least one or more languages: Go, Python, Java, or C++.
• Tremendous attention to details with reliable and scalable software systems.

Responsibilities

• Introduce tools to facilitate greater automation and operability of services.
• Architect, deploy, and scale observability infrastructure.
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure uptime of services.

Skills

Cloud Computing

Containerization

Distributed Database Systems

Programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C++)

Observability Systems

Cloud Computing Toolsets

Configuration Management/Orchestration Tools

TCP/IP Networking

Debugging and Troubleshooting

Effective Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

JIRA

Jenkins

Job description

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.

We’re hiring talented Platform Infrastructure Engineers that are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex challenges and automate those solutions. You’ll be part of the cloud engineering organization where we have a strong focus on using engineering and software practices to manage and scale our cloud infrastructure. As part of the organization who owns the relationships with our Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) you will be building products that improve the scalability of Snowflake.

You’ll understand the CSP roadmap and products, and lead initiatives aimed at infrastructure, process, systems, and automation to achieve better efficiency and reliability. You will also discover bottlenecks, limitations, and new feature requests that influence the cloud ecosystem of products directly.

Eventually, you will act as an architect between CSP and Snowflake services. You’ll build a deep understanding of Snowflake's service and use that knowledge to optimize and evolve our infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, and profitability. As part of that you will contribute to building components of Virtual CSP (vCSP) layer, a cloud-agnostic approach to feature development within Snowflake. vCSP will help ease feature development to meet customers where they are–or want to be–faster than we do today.

You’ll work with some of the brightest engineers on the planet. To be successful, you’ll need to be technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills. You have software development fundamentals, systems knowledge, and troubleshooting abilities. Ideally, you’re an expert on at least one major cloud provider and have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code.

If you love solving problems at scale, prefer to write scalable, reliable, and testable software, are an ace troubleshooter, and are deeply technical, then this is the role for you!

AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - PLATFORM INFRASTRUCTURE AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

• Introduce tools to facilitate greater automation and operability of services

• Architect, deploy, and scale observability infrastructure

• Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services

• Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime

• Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable

• Work closely with our various teams to ensure those best practices get applied

• Utilize your deep experience and problem solving skills to help prevent and investigate production issues

• Plan and lead complicated technical projects that interact with a wide variety of teams within the company

• Take a data-first approach that helps define the investments of the world's largest cloud service providers

OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - PLATFORM INFRASTRUCTURE WILL HAVE:

• 7 - 10 or more years experience with:

  • Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP, or others)

  • Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker/ContainerD)

  • Distributed Database systems (FoundationDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)

• Experience in programming in at least one or more of the following languages: Go, Python, Java, or C++

• Experience with Observability systems - Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc

• Experience with Cloud Computing toolsets - Pulumi, Terraform, Vault, Packer etc

• Experience with Configuration Management/Orchestration tools (Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet)

• Firm grasp of TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting

• Tremendous attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems

• Effective communication and collaboration skills

• Solid interpersonal skills conducive to a team environment

• Able to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues

• Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving

• Experience and knowledge of Git, JIRA, and Jenkins a plus

• Bachelor’s or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field

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.

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?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $243,000 - $379,500.
• 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.