Principal Software Engineer – Engineering Systems

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2 Locations
In-Office
243K-330K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Cloud • Machine Learning • Software • Database • Analytics
Let's build a world where data and AI turn possibilities into reality.
The Role
Seeking a Principal Software Engineer to enhance our developer platform focusing on distributed systems, tooling, and infrastructure. Responsibilities include strategic planning, mentoring engineers, and fostering best practices.
Summary Generated by Built In

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.

We’re hiring a talented Principal Software Engineer to help us build a world class developer platform to fuel the Snowflake Data Cloud. As an engineering leader in the ES (Engineering Systems) team, you will play a central role in delivering the next generation of tools used by our engineers to develop our flagship product. Together with industry-wide experts in distributed systems, cross-cloud development and engineering excellence, you will evolve our developer infrastructure and tooling to be secure, elastic, large-scale, and highly performant with simplicity at its core.

OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
  • Strong passion for making developers highly productive.

  • 15+ years industry experience developing and maintaining world-scale infrastructure and distributed systems.

  • Fluency in Java, C++, Python or Go.

  • Expertise in:

    • Kubernetes.

    • Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security.

    • Authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs.

  • A track record of technical execution and technical leadership.

  • A passion for operational excellence, and willingness to hold yourself and others to a high operational bar.

  • A track record for mentoring and guiding senior and staff engineers; fostering best practices in coding, testing, and automation.

  • A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.

  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills.

  • Outstanding communicator, both written and verbal skills

  • Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA offices.

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:
  • Artifacts services (Nexus, Artifactory)

  • Workflow execution systems (Jenkins, Argo)

  • Supporting large monorepo codebases

  • Enterprise-scale build systems

  • Test frameworks and related tool design

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

Top Skills

Argo
C++
Go
Java
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Python
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The Company
HQ: Bozeman, MT
8,769 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Snowflake powers the end-to-end data lifecycle – from ingesting and processing data to analyzing and modeling it, to building and sharing data and AI applications – helping engineers, analysts, and leaders innovate faster and achieve more with their data.

We're on a mission to empower every enterprise to achieve its full potential through data and AI.

Why Work With Us

Snowflake is where data does more, and so do you. More innovating, more growing, and more collaborating. Here, you’ll find the sweet spot between building big and moving fast, in technology and your career.

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