Senior Software Engineer - Global Services Platform

Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team. There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow. Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it. Our team is called the Global Service Platform team, the core platform which most of Snowflake develops their software and services on top of. We are creating a software development platform that will be a delightful experience for our developers and improves developer productivity, improves reliability, improves performance, and reduces costs. We do this by managing, updating and maintaining a set of underlying core binaries, creating reusable and repeatable frameworks, and patterns and best practices for Snowflake at large. We are actively hiring talented distributed systems developers. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the vision, architecture and approach for the core platform that the rest of Snowflake operates on. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER ON THE GLOBAL SERVICES PLATFORM TEAM, YOU WILL: Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills. Build the next-generation systems that make using Java safe, performant, and secure. Provide a consistent platform that Snowflake engineers can use to deliver high quality solutions to production. Pinpoint performance and availability problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions. Ensure operational readiness of our infrastructure to meet availability and performance commitments. Work on projects with team members across the globe and that have an impact on millions of users. We are looking for strong software engineers who are interested in solving low-level problems, understand the JVM and how it interacts with the operating system, and are interested in solving some of the most challenging performance, scalability, and availability problems that exist in the world today.

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production. Experience building and maintaining large scale distributed fault tolerant systems in production. Deep experience with building a platforms and frameworks that improve or extend modern runtimes and testing tools. 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. Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions. Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in Java and understanding of JVM internals. BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

Build an industry-leading Cloud Data 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. Learn about and contribute to: Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries daily. Highly-scalable and reliable cloud platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines. Optimizing performance and resource management in Java systems. Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars. Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. 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. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Dormont Manufacturing Company