Production Engineer

Snowflake, Inc; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 157,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative company at the forefront of AI Data Cloud technology, where you will play a crucial role in enhancing the reliability and performance of distributed systems. As a Production Engineer, you will collaborate with product engineering teams to design, build, and automate applications that are vital to our customers' success. This role offers a unique opportunity to engage in the full lifecycle of services, scale systems sustainably through automation, and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this is the place for you.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Health savings account

Paid holidays

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in at least one modern programming language.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services.
• Collaborate with software engineers to maintain functional SLOs.

Skills

Problem-solving

Effective communication

Modern programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux infrastructure

Public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

Production Engineering ensures that Snowflake’s services are reliable and perform to our users' needs. As a Production Engineer, you will work to improve the availability and performance of Snowflake’s distributed systems. You will partner with our product engineering teams to design, build, operate, and automate distributed applications at the heart of Snowflake’s service that are critical to the function of our customers.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement.

• Scale systems sustainably by automation; Drive changes that improve reliability and velocity.

• Establish and practice low noise incident response rotations and blameless postmortems to prevent problem recurrence.

• Write and review code. Develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems on large distributed systems.

• Collaborate with software engineers to establish, maintain, and optimize functional and performance SLOs.

• Participate in a 12x7 on-call rotation.

MINIMAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• Proficient in at least one modern programming language

• Systematic problem-solving methods, effective communication skills.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE:

• The position may require access to U.S. export-controlled technologies, technical data, or sensitive government data.

• Employment with Snowflake is contingent on Snowflake verifying that you: (i) may legally access U.S. export-controlled technologies, technical data, or sensitive government data; or (ii) are eligible to obtain, in a timely manner, any necessary license or other authorization(s) from the U.S. Government to allow access to U.S. export-controlled technology, technical data, or sensitive government data.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with capacity and load testing of the distributed applications

• Experience with containers and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes

• Experience in deploying, managing, and operating scalable and fault tolerant Linux infrastructure.

• Experience with the SLO-driven reliability management processes.

• Hands on experience with one of more public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently.

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?

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 $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.