Staff Software Engineer - Metadata & Replication (Equity)

Snowflake; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Metadata team to lead the design of core metadata and replication systems across multiple teams, and to set scale, consistency, and fault tolerance direction for the metadata layer.

You will influence cross-region and cross-cloud replication, meet demanding performance targets, mentor engineers, and partner with product to translate customer needs into durable technical designs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems or database internals.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Strong development skills in Java or C++.
• Proven record leading multi-team technical initiatives from design to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of core metadata and replication systems across multiple teams.
• Set technical direction for scalability, consistency, and fault tolerance of the metadata layer.
• Drive cross-region and cross-cloud replication toward lower RPO and higher reliability.
• Solve hard problems in performance, availability, and correctness at global scale.
• Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leaders on the team.

Skills

Distributed systems leadership

Java or C++

Technical leadership

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Tools

FoundationDB

AWS

Azure

Job description

Snowflake is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Metadata team to lead the design of core metadata and replication systems across multiple teams, and to set scale, consistency, and fault tolerance direction for the metadata layer.

You will influence cross-region and cross-cloud replication, meet demanding performance targets, mentor engineers, and partner with product to translate customer needs into durable technical designs.