Principal Software Engineer – Engineering Systems

Principal Software Engineer – Engineering Systems

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Principal Software Engineer – Engineering Systems

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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
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $243,000 - $346,500.
• 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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