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Snowflake

Senior Production Engineer

Snowflake, Menlo Park, California, United States, 94029

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Overview

Snowflake empowers enterprises to achieve their potential with a culture focused on impact, innovation, and collaboration. Production Engineering ensures Snowflake’s services are reliable and perform for users. As a Senior Production Engineer, you will work to improve the availability and performance of Snowflake’s distributed systems, partnering with product engineering teams to design, build, operate, and automate distributed applications central to Snowflake’s service. Responsibilities

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement. Scale systems sustainably by automation; drive changes that improve reliability and velocity. Establish and practice low-noise incident response rotations and blameless postmortems to prevent problem recurrence. Write and review code. Develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems on large distributed systems. Collaborate with software engineers to establish, maintain, and optimize functional and performance SLOs. Participate in on-call rotation. Minimal qualifications

Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software engineering, or equivalent practical experience. Proficient in at least one modern programming language. Systematic problem-solving methods, effective communication skills. Mandatory requirements for the role

The position may require access to U.S. export-controlled technologies, technical data, or sensitive government data. Employment with Snowflake is contingent on Snowflake verifying that you may legally access U.S. export-controlled technologies, technical data, or sensitive government data; or are eligible to obtain any necessary license or authorization from the U.S. Government. Preferred qualifications

Experience with capacity and load testing of distributed applications. Experience with containers and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes. Experience in deploying, managing, and operating scalable and fault-tolerant Linux infrastructure. Experience with SLO-driven reliability management processes. Hands-on experience with one or more public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP). Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently. Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company\u2019s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company\u2019s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee\u2019s duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. Snowflake is growing fast, and we\u2019re 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. 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 Compensation and benefits

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role: The estimated base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $287,500. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan. The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: 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; and other company benefits. To comply with pay transparency requirements and other statutes, you can notify us if you believe that a job posting is not compliant by completing this form.

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