Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Provisioning Service

Snowflake's Cloud Provisioning team creates an abstraction layer between each of Snowflake's cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud) and the rest of Snowflake. The team is actively hiring distributed systems developers for a role that offers the opportunity to shape the vision, architecture and approach for the core services that the rest of Snowflake operates on. For jobs located in the United States, salary and benefits information is available on the Snowflake Careers Site (careers.snowflake.com).

Responsibilities

Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your 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

Requirements

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.; Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions; 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