Snowflake의 Metadata 팀에서 분산 시스템 아키텍처를 설계하고 대규모 데이터 관리 솔루션을 주도할 Principal Software Engineer를 찾습니다. 15년 이상의 경력과 분산 시스템 및 Java에 대한 깊은 이해가 필수입니다. 페타바이트 규모의 시스템을 구축하고 기술적 난제를 해결하며 엔지니어링 팀을 리딩할 역량을 갖춘 분을 환영합니다.
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
We are the Snowflake Metadata team. We own Snowflake’s metadata systems that make it easy for customers to query, modify and manage their petabyte-scale data. We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake’s query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities. We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace.
Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for our Snowgrid and Data Sharing teams.
Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects.
Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
Mentor and grow junior engineers.
Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance 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 durability, availability and performance.
15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services.
Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including. multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred.
Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems.
Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.
Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform.
Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.
Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
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
