Overview
On Site
USD 195,000.00 - 287,500.00 per year
Full Time
Skills
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Software Engineering
Analytical Skill
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Management
Replication
Meta-data Management
Query Optimization
Scalability
Data Structure
Algorithms
Multithreading
Concurrent Computing
Fluency
C++
Java
Object-Oriented Programming
Database
Computer Science
Data Security
Innovation
Snow Flake Schema
Job Details
Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.
Snowflake Metadata team builds a scalable metadata system that allows Snowflake to query across petabyte-scale data very efficiently. The micro-partition metadata system is at the heart of Snowflake query performance and core features like zero-copy cloning, time travel and replication. It is also foundational for new features such as Iceberg Tables.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - SNOWGRID, YOU WILL:
OUR IDEAL SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
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
Snowflake Metadata team builds a scalable metadata system that allows Snowflake to query across petabyte-scale data very efficiently. The micro-partition metadata system is at the heart of Snowflake query performance and core features like zero-copy cloning, time travel and replication. It is also foundational for new features such as Iceberg Tables.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - SNOWGRID, YOU WILL:
- Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
- Manage petabyte scale data supporting most critical globally deployed applications
- Build the next generation replication platform to reduce time to market across Snowflake features
- Have the opportunity to work on various background services that power Snowflake's proprietary multi-level metadata system to support fast compilation and query optimization.
- Design, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system comprising many technologies.
- Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever growing request rate of our database
- Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.
OUR IDEAL SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
- 5+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
- Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java (or other similar procedural object-oriented language) is preferred.
- Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.
- Knowledge of database internals is a big plus.
- BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred
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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