Snowflake

Principal Cloud Software Engineer

Bellevue, WA US
Ansible Go Puppet Git Azure Cassandra MongoDB Java Chef API Terraform AWS GCP Python
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Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.

We’re hiring an extraordinarily talented Principal Software Engineer that is passionate about adapting complex cloud architecture to new markets.  You’ll be part of the cloud engineering organization where we have a strong focus on using engineering and software practices to manage and scale our cloud infrastructure.  Working in cloud engineering, you’ll lead and contribute to initiatives aimed at porting our infrastructure, process, systems, and automation.  You’ll build a deep understanding of Snowflake's service and use that knowledge to optimize and evolve our infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, and profitability. 

You’ll work with some of the brightest engineers on the planet. To be successful, you’ll need to be technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers.  You possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, including using tools like Terraform and Ansible. You have built and maintained complex cloud deployments. You have software development fundamentals, systems knowledge, and troubleshooting abilities. You deeply understand how software is developed for different markets, and how products can succeed there. 

If you love solving problems at scale, rearchitecting complex, scalable, reliable, and testable software to new markets, coordinating with all aspects of business, and redefining how an international product can succeed while continuously improving, then this is the role for you!

AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

  • Provide, improve, and translate a highly automated infrastructure pipeline for deploying and scaling a distributed, multi-tenant, high performance compute and data platform to new environments
  • Introduce tools to facilitate greater automation and operability of services
  • Plan, lead, and execute complicated technical projects that interact with a wide variety of teams within the company
  • Utilize your deep experience and problem solving skills to help prevent and investigate production issues
  • Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services
  • Create runtime tools/processes that optimize cloud triaging and limit downtime
  • Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable
  • Work closely with our various teams to ensure those best practices get applied 
  • Take a data-first approach that helps define the investments of the world's largest cloud service providers 

OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL LOCALIZATION SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

  • Multiple years experience with:
    • Software engineering or DevOps
    • Cloud computing (AWS, Azure, GCP, or others)
    • Distributed database systems (FoundationDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.)
  • Experience in programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Python, Go, C++ 
  • Experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
  • Experience with Cloud computing toolsets - Terraform, Vault, Packer etc. 
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Pulumi, Chef, Puppet)
  • Firm grasp of TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting
  • Good knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, cloud computing patterns
  • Tremendous attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills
  • Solid interpersonal skills conducive to a team environment
  • Able to debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues
  • Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving
  • Experience and knowledge of Git, JIRA, and Jenkins a plus
  • Bachelor’s or Master Degree in Computer Science or related field

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE:

The position may require access to U.S. export-controlled technologies or technical data.

Employment with Snowflake is contingent on Snowflake either verifying that you may legally access U.S. export-controlled technologies and technical data, or successfully obtaining by obtaining, in a timely manner, any necessary license or other authorization from the U.S. Government to allow you to have the ability to access U.S. export-controlled technology and technical data.

Snowflake
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