Senior Software Engineer - Developer Productivity Engineering

As an engineer in the DPE (Developer Productivity Engineering) team, you will be working on challenging problems building cutting-edge infrastructure and tools for Snowflakes around the globe. Our mission is to provide a highly trusted and simple way for Snowflakes to deliver high-quality products to our customers at scale. This is an opportunity to have a big impact and break new ground in cross-cloud development. 

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DPE AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL PERFORM ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Build the next generation scalable and reliable continuous integration system scaling to hundreds of thousands of nodes
• Build systems to provide high-fidelity developer environments across multiple cloud providers
• Build excellent tools for code search, static and dynamic analysis, fast builds, and distributed system debugging 
• Build highly intuitive, self-service interfaces for developer environments builds, and tests in the end-to-end development lifecycle

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DPE WILL HAVE:

• A strong desire and passion for automation and developer productivity
• Experience in distributed systems and systems engineering
• Experience in one or more of the following: intelligent test selection, continuous integration infrastructure, enterprise build systems (e.g. Bazel or Gradle), web service APIs, IDE plugins, command-line tool development, web UI development, static and dynamic code analysis
• Expertise in one of our core languages (Go, Java) and as a bonus one or more of the following: Python, NodeJS, and Javascript.
• Strong working knowledge of software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, operational readiness, etc.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, especially in a cloud environment.
• Great communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external developers.
• Genuine enjoyment of the art of building great software, and a love of learning new things.
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science equivalent majors or above.

WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? BUILDING NEW ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGIES IS COMPLEX, AND OUR ENGINEERING TEAM SURMOUNTS THE OBSTACLES.

AS A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, YOU WILL:

• Build an industry-leading developer platform that customers love.
• Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
• Learn about and contribute to:
• Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
• Highly scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
• User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.