Software Engineer - Warehouse

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

Job summary

Snowflake, Inc is seeking a Software Engineer to work on scalable distributed systems integral to their Data Cloud vision. The ideal candidate will have experience in fault-tolerant services and strong knowledge in Java or similar languages, making significant contributions to the team.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in large scale systems in production.
• Experience with distributed fault tolerant services.
• Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals including data structures and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with different teams.

Skills

Multi-threading

Memory Management

Networking

Storage

Performance and Scale

Distributed Systems

Problem Solving

Education

BS in Computer Science

Masters or PhD

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Where Data Does More. 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.

Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services,

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability

and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not

managing it. In our effort to enable our Data Cloud vision, we are actively hiring talented

distributed systems developers. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact

on our elastic, large scale, high-performance computing environment.

The Warehouse team is responsible for the scale, performance, health, and features around

Snowflake’s Virtual Warehouses. Our services span from managing hundreds of thousands of

compute resources, to the scheduling of millions of jobs within warehouses, to providing

capabilities for customers to make the best use of their warehouses. This is a high-impact,

highly-visible product that is critical to Snowflake's core product offerings and revenue. We are

looking for a highly motivated software engineer who has worked in highly available, large scale

distributed systems.

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and

analytical problem solving skills• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our services layer.

• Lead and contribute to building and maintaining a roadmap for the area and team.

• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges,

and solve them.

• Lead cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with engineers, product managers, and

Technical Program Managers across teams.

• 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.

OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 2-5 years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems

in production.

• Experience designing and building large scale distributed fault tolerant services

• Experience in designing, building, maintaining or enhancing high-scale job schedulers.

• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-

threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.

• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

• Strong experience in Java or other object oriented languages, especially in multi-

threading or concurrency.

• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

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 $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.