Overview
On Site
USD 195,000.00 - 287,500.00 per year
Full Time
Skills
Artificial Intelligence
Analytical Skill
Benchmarking
Performance Tuning
Pivotal
Scalability
CHAOS
Computer Hardware
Software Engineering
Computer Science
Process Management
Concurrent Computing
Management
IO
File Systems
Cloud Computing
Amazon Web Services
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud
Problem Solving
Conflict Resolution
Communication
Collaboration
Computer Networking
High Performance Computing
Linux
Unix
Performance Analysis
NoSQL
Database
Storage
RDBMS
SQL
Data Security
Innovation
Snow Flake Schema
Job Details
Where Data Does More. Join the Snowflake team.
We're at the forefront of the Data and AI revolution, committed to building the world's greatest data and applications platform. Snowflake started with a clear vision: develop a cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. The AI Data Cloud allows sharing live data in governed and secure ways so our customers can solve their business problems.
Unistore is Snowflake's transformative product that combines transactional and analytical capabilities in a single database and brings the simplicity and power of Snowflake to operational data workloads.
The Unistore Performance team's mission is to guard and elevate Unistore performance by identifying performance hotspots through benchmarking and developing tools and infrastructure for performance investigation, as well as developing product features related to performance optimization.
We are looking for a senior software engineer who is passionate about systems performance, and having a solid understanding of distributed systems and databases, and a passion for solving challenging technical problems. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring that Unistore achieve and sustain peak performance. You'll work closely with feature teams and product teams to identify bottlenecks, optimize performance, and drive efficiency across all layers of Unistore.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER ON THIS TEAM, YOU WILL:
AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
BONUS POINTS:
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
We're at the forefront of the Data and AI revolution, committed to building the world's greatest data and applications platform. Snowflake started with a clear vision: develop a cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. The AI Data Cloud allows sharing live data in governed and secure ways so our customers can solve their business problems.
Unistore is Snowflake's transformative product that combines transactional and analytical capabilities in a single database and brings the simplicity and power of Snowflake to operational data workloads.
The Unistore Performance team's mission is to guard and elevate Unistore performance by identifying performance hotspots through benchmarking and developing tools and infrastructure for performance investigation, as well as developing product features related to performance optimization.
We are looking for a senior software engineer who is passionate about systems performance, and having a solid understanding of distributed systems and databases, and a passion for solving challenging technical problems. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring that Unistore achieve and sustain peak performance. You'll work closely with feature teams and product teams to identify bottlenecks, optimize performance, and drive efficiency across all layers of Unistore.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER ON THIS TEAM, YOU WILL:
- Analyze Unistore performance and scalability, identify bottlenecks, and recommend and develop improvements in Unistore.
- Analyze production workloads, and develop synthetic workloads, chaos workloads and benchmarks.
- Develop tools to profile performance at runtime e.g. perf, eBPF, kernel tracing, flame graphs.
- Explore new execution hardware and new cluster configurations that improve the overall resource efficiency of the system.
- Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture.
- Participate in the design and implementation of next generation systems.
AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
- 8+ years hands-on software engineering experience.
- BS/MS/PhD in computer science (or equivalent)
- Expertise in identifying and analyzing performance bottlenecks
- Solid understanding of OS and systems concepts like process management, concurrency, memory management, IO patterns, file systems, block storage devices, etc.
- Work experience in cloud environments like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
- Ability to work effectively both autonomously and in teams
- Strong technical problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Excitement by the challenge of hard technical problems
- Intense curiosity and willingness to question
BONUS POINTS:
- PhD in a performance related field such as networking, high performance computing
- Good working knowledge of Linux / Unix OSes
- Have worked on performance analysis for databases
- Knowledge of NoSQL, SQL databases and database storage engines
- Understanding of relational database concepts and SQL
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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