Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
Our Quality Engineering team is actively seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer in Test to join our fast growing organization. In this role you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the testing organization. You will be driving the development of end-to-end integration tests, automation frameworks, and tools to have robust automated testing pipelines for the Snowflake Data Cloud.
This is a hands-on role in which you will design and code comprehensive testing frameworks while taking on a technical leadership role, improving productivity of our development/QE teams and bringing standardization to our processes and practices.
Reporting to the Senior Manager of Quality Engineering, you will collaborate with a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars to ensure that we are shipping the highest quality service possible at each weekly release. This an awesome opportunity to work with cutting edge cloud technology in a highly visible role.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO :
- Drive quality across all disciplines, providing guidance, feedback, and suggestions to improve quality practices across engineering organization
- Contribute to technical leadership and strategic direction to continuously improve the Quality Engineering Organization
- Partner with customer facing groups such as PMs, UX, SEs to better understand how customers interface and use our product to drive quality early and often in SDLC
- Author and enhance Test plans based on feature requirements and specifications, as well as technical discussions and deep dives with engineers
- Build, enhance and maintain automation frameworks utilized by team to automate critical user scenarios for regression testing
- Prioritize and execute test cases in a snowflake environment that’s representative of customers’ schema and workloads
- Partner with Support and Engineering to investigate, troubleshoot and identify/implement fixes for customer facing issues
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE :
- 10+ years of relevant experience in Quality Engineering, specifically testing, frameworks and automation as a Technical Lead.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- High proficiency coding in Python, Java and/or C++ preferred.
- Strong CS fundamentals including OO concepts, data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- Strong database understanding including SQL, query optimizers, performance, multi-threading, and schema design
- Experience with cloud technology including GCP, AWS and/or Azure
- Proven experience developing comprehensive and effective Test and Performance tools, as well as frameworks.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of standard quality best practices, techniques and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements
- Experience delivering quality software in a large distributed system with emphasis on functional and performance automation, workloads and testing
- Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment systems like Jenkins
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? AS A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, YOU WILL :
- Build an industry-leading data management system that customers love.
- Measurably impact an innovative product area central to Snowflake’s success.
- Take charge of your own career- this role has the impact and ability to grow both technically, as well as from a leadership perspective.
- Ensure the quality, performance, and reliability of a super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
- Learn at scale as you work on a highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines and executes Billions of queries.
- Ensure that we are shipping the highest quality service possible at each weekly release.
- Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
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