Staff Software Engineer (Snowpark Container Service)

Snowflake; Bellevue (KY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health insurance plans

Health savings accounts

Robust retirement plans

Life and disability insurance

Quarterly bonus or commission program

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Snowpark Container Service in Bellevue, WA. You will design and build features for a cloud-native compute platform, lead engineers, and drive technical direction for critical parts of the product surface area.

You will work on ensuring reliability, performance, and multi-cloud support across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with an emphasis on security and multi-tenancy in a fast-moving, collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on coding in Java, C++ or Go is highly desirable.
• 10+ years of industry experience building features and capabilities of large-scale systems or infrastructure-level platforms.
• Strong fundamentals in computer science and distributed systems.
• Experience building products/services with Kubernetes.
• Designing and implementing products/features with multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Implementing multi-tenant systems with focus on performance, isolation and security.
• Be a team player with ability to work across teams and domains.
• Excitement to learn new things and grow with the team.
• On-site work in downtown Bellevue office.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
• Lead a team of engineers, including mentoring and setting technical direction.
• Manage all aspects of the project, including design, coding, reviews, testing, observability, tooling and on-call.
• Build highly reliable, fault-tolerant software for large customers.
• Ensure operational readiness, reliability, and performance of the service.
• Design and build Kubernetes-based OCI container compute platform features that scale with customer needs.

Skills

Java

Go

C++

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Multi-cloud

Multi-tenant design

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

• We are looking for a talented and passionate Staff Software Engineer for our Snowpark Container Service, part of our Snowflake Compute Platform - to build our elastic, high-scale, high-performance, cloud native compute platform to enable bringing Compute to Data effortless and simple
• Snowpark Container Services is a fully managed container offering that helps our customers easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without having to move data out of Snowflake. As a fully managed service, it comes with Snowflake security, configuration, and operational best practices built in. You will be part of this highly productive, fast moving, and growing team that is critical to realizing Snowflake’s Data Cloud Mission
• Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals
• Lead a team of engineers, including mentoring and guiding them, and build technical direction and strategy for large and critical parts of the product surface area
• Manage all aspects of the Project, including Design, Coding, Reviews, Testing, Observability, Tooling and On-Call support
• Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant software to meet the needs of the largest customers
• Ensure operational readiness and maintainability of the service with heavy focus on reliability, availability, debuggability and performance
• Design and build Kubernetes based OCI compliant container compute platform features and capabilities that scale and evolve with changing business and customer needs
• Snowpark Container Services is still in an early stage of development - it is an amazing opportunity for outsized impact on Snowflake’s growth story

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans
• Health savings accounts
• Robust retirement plans
• Life and disability insurance
• Weekly online lunch and learns
• Virtual workout classes
• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
• On-demand mental health and wellness programs
• Fertility benefits and family planning resources
• Generous time-off and various leave plans
• Onsite and Remote Work
• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Quarterly bonus or commission program

Be a team player - Our team culture is a priority. Transparency, knowledge sharing, fun events, and helping each other are all part of our work environmentAbility to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue officeExcitement to learn new things - passion to learn and grow are keys to success on this teamHands-on coding experience in Java, C++ or Go is highly desirable10+ years of industry experience building features and capabilities of large scale systems or infrastructure level platformsExtremely strong fundamental computer science skills and experience building distributed systemsWork across functions and across teams - we don’t only work on code that we own, we work with other parts of Snowflake every dayExperience building products or services with KubernetesDesigning and implementing products and features with multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP)Implementing multi-tenant systems with focus on performance, isolation and security