Job Description
Job description
Where Data Does More. Join the Snowflake team.
We're hiring a talented Principal Software Engineer to help us build a world class developer platform to fuel the Snowflake Data Cloud. As an engineering leader in the ES (Engineering Systems) team, you will play a central role in delivering the next generation of tools used by our engineers to develop our flagship product. Together with industry-wide experts in distributed systems, cross-cloud development and engineering excellence, you will evolve our developer infrastructure and tooling to be secure, elastic, large-scale, and highly performant with simplicity at its core.
OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
• Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
• 15+ years industry experience developing and maintaining world-scale infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Fluency in Java, C++, Python or Go.
• Expertise in:
• Kubernetes.
• Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security.
• Authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs.
• A track record of technical execution and technical leadership.
• A passion for operational excellence, and willingness to hold yourself and others to a high operational bar.
• A track record for mentoring and guiding senior and staff engineers; fostering best practices in coding, testing, and automation.
• A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Outstanding communicator, both written and verbal skills
• Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA offices.
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:
• Artifacts services (Nexus, Artifactory)
• Workflow execution systems (Jenkins, Argo)
• Supporting large monorepo codebases
• Enterprise-scale build systems
• Test frameworks and related tool design
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
Where Data Does More. Join the Snowflake team.
We're hiring a talented Principal Software Engineer to help us build a world class developer platform to fuel the Snowflake Data Cloud. As an engineering leader in the ES (Engineering Systems) team, you will play a central role in delivering the next generation of tools used by our engineers to develop our flagship product. Together with industry-wide experts in distributed systems, cross-cloud development and engineering excellence, you will evolve our developer infrastructure and tooling to be secure, elastic, large-scale, and highly performant with simplicity at its core.
OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
• Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
• 15+ years industry experience developing and maintaining world-scale infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Fluency in Java, C++, Python or Go.
• Expertise in:
• Kubernetes.
• Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security.
• Authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs.
• A track record of technical execution and technical leadership.
• A passion for operational excellence, and willingness to hold yourself and others to a high operational bar.
• A track record for mentoring and guiding senior and staff engineers; fostering best practices in coding, testing, and automation.
• A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Outstanding communicator, both written and verbal skills
• Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA offices.
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:
• Artifacts services (Nexus, Artifactory)
• Workflow execution systems (Jenkins, Argo)
• Supporting large monorepo codebases
• Enterprise-scale build systems
• Test frameworks and related tool design
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
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Principal Software Engineer - Engineering Systems position is now open for candidates interested in the Software Developer Jobs sector. This role in Menlo Park offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Software Developer Jobs is a plus.
