Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Provisioning Service

The role

You will design and implement scalable distributed systems for the services layer. You will solve large scale business needs and lead cross-functional initiatives to ensure operational readiness and performance.

What you will do

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our services layer.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
• 2+ years experience in leading a group of junior and senior engineers.
• Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring.
• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• BS in Computer Science

Nice to have

• Fluency in C++ or Java preferred
• Masters or PhD preferred

About the company

Snowflake designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. The company's product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.