Snowflake Computing - Bellevue, WA

posted 8 months ago

Full-time - Principal
Bellevue, WA
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

In this role at Snowflake, you will be at the forefront of building new database technology from the ground up. Our vision is to enable customers to utilize our service for all their database workload needs, as seamlessly as they currently use the Snowflake data warehouse. You will join a team dedicated to designing and constructing the next generation of database systems technology that will power Snowflake's innovative Data Cloud. To realize this vision, our team is focused on expanding the addressable database workloads of the Snowflake platform, aiming to provide customers with predictable performance and high efficiency across any database workload. As a Principal Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to our world-class team, presenting a unique opportunity to make a significant impact within our elastic, large-scale, high-performance computing environment. You will maintain technical ownership and ensure effective collaboration with the technical leadership of other major parts of Snowflake. Your role will involve setting the technical direction for the team and guiding the engineering vision, as well as architecting critical systems and anticipating strategic challenges and opportunities in key areas such as query processing, transaction management, and distributed data processing algorithms. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database systems. This includes owning the production rollout of features in your area while leveraging and nurturing other strong engineering talent within your team. You will evaluate and determine priorities with a critical understanding of where performance matters most, analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system, and implement effective solutions. Additionally, you will represent your area to Snowflake's customers as a technical expert and influence the industry by participating in conferences and technical forums.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain technical ownership and ensure concise collaboration with the technical leadership of other major parts of Snowflake
  • Set the technical direction for the team and help guide the engineering vision
  • Architect critical systems and anticipate strategic challenges and opportunities in key areas such as query processing, transaction management or distributed data processing algorithms
  • Design, develop, and support highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database systems
  • Own the production rollout of the features of your area while at the same time leveraging and growing other strong engineering talent in your team
  • Evaluate and determine priorities with a critical understanding of where performance matters most
  • Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
  • Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions
  • Represent your area to Snowflake's customers as a technical expert
  • Influence the industry by participating in conferences and technical forums

Requirements

  • 10+ years hands-on software engineering experience in distributed stateful systems, databases or other relevant fields
  • Significant background in database internals or building core components for data processing systems (query compilation, query execution, storage engines, transaction processing, autonomous tuning and workload optimization)
  • Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance and schema design
  • Strong systems fundamentals including multi-threading, IO subsystem and scheduling
  • Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
  • Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++, C, or Java preferred
  • Track record of identifying problems, solutions and delivering highly complex projects in distributed systems or databases
  • BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience with Big Data storage technologies and their applications (HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.)
  • Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra, etc.
  • Experience with Advanced Analytics systems (e.g. Time-Series, Complex Event Processing, Forecasting, etc.)
  • Experience with distributed systems (Consensus protocols, Replication)

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Flexible spending & health savings account
  • At least 12 paid holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Employee assistance program
  • Other company benefits
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