Snowflake

Principal Software Engineer I - Metadata

Full-time · Bellevue, WA
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Senior · 15+ yrs exp

Requirements

Experience: 15+ years

Skills & tools

ProgrammingDistributed SystemsOperationsManagementJavaSecurityMaintenanceSnowflake
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Full job description

We are the Snowflake Metadata team. We own Snowflake's metadata systems that make it easy for customers to query, modify and manage their petabyte-scale data. We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake's query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities.

We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace.

- Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.

- Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for our Snowgrid and Data Sharing teams.

- Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.

- Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.

- Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance 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 durability, availability and performance.

- 15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services.

- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

- Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including. multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.

- Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred.

- Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems.

- Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations

- Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!

- Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.

- Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

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