Description:
We’re hiring talented Software Engineers to join the Snowflake Database Engineering team! In this role you will work directly with our team to evolve our elastic, large scale, high-performance data processing system. We need smart engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly – and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies!
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
- Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database that is highly parallel and fault-tolerant.
- Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of some of the largest companies on the planet.
- Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
- Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.
- Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms which allow Snowflake to provide industry leading data warehousing capabilities.
- Design and implement the new service architecture required to enable the Snowflake Data Cloud
- Develop tools for improving our customers' insights into their workloads.
OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
- 2+ years industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
- Fluency in Java or C++.
- Familiarity with development in a Linux environment.
- Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
- Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
- Experience with implementation testing, debugging and documentation.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field; Masters or PhD preferred.
- Ability to work on-site in our Menlo Park / Bellevue / Berlin office.