Principal Software Engineer - Elastic Global Services

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our cloud services.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability 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 availability and performance.

OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE

• 15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.
• Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant infrastructure.
• Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
• Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including. multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
• Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.

WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

Build an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.

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.

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?

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?

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