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 seasoned Staff Software Engineer to help us build a world class developer platform to fuel the Snowflake Data Cloud. As an engineer in the Continuous Integration team within ES (Engineering Systems), you will play a central role in setting the technical standard for and delivering the CI service that powers our repositories. Together with industry-wide experts in distributed systems, cross-cloud development and engineering excellence, you will evolve our developer infrastructure and tooling to be elastic, large-scale, and highly performant with simplicity at its core.
As a software engineer in the CI team in ES, you will help Snowflake realize its mission and vision of becoming the premier Data Cloud by accelerating the delivery of our high quality software to production. You will be a key stakeholder in driving clarity on our strategy and partner with product managers to chart the quarterly and long-term roadmaps for the team. You will ensure that the team is executing towards serving the current needs of its customers, while also ensuring that we stay ahead of technological trends and future demands.
OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
9+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
A track record of technical leadership
Experience working on enterprise-grade Continuous Integration for Cloud-based distributed systems.
Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Fluency in Java, C++, Python or Go.
Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
Outstanding written and oral English language skills.
Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA (and future Menlo Park, CA) office.
Developing data or distributed systems internals.
Experience with Jenkins, ArgoCD or other CI-related suites.
Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security.
Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs.
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
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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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