Principal Software Engineer - Observability

Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.

The Observability team at Snowflake is in charge of building an extensible, self-service Observability platform that reliably collects and serves telemetry data such as metrics, logs, traces/profiles to users within Snowflake. When developing these solutions, we think about the problem end-to-end: how do we collect data from different stacks across Snowflake reliably, how do we store it efficiently, how do we present this information to the user, what actions do we take on the insights from the data?

AS A PRINCIPAL ENGINEER IN OBSERVABILITY, YOU WILL:

• Work with the senior engineering leaders to define the direction and strategy of the Observability platform
• Lead the efforts to evolve the platform and the roadmap to implement it
• Communicate and evangelize the observability strategy and best practices to the rest of the company
• Mentor and grow more junior engineers and tech leads in the team

OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 15+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting distributed systems and large-scale data processing systems in production
• Outstanding leadership capabilities, with the ability to build a positive, collaborative, and technically-focused team environment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate with internal customers and establish solid, collaborative partnerships with engineers, non-technical team members, and executives
• Written skills are key to success in working with our distributed teams

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• Extensive experience in a technical leadership role with at least one of the pillars of observability: Logs, Metrics, Traces, Profiling etc
• Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Contributions to any of these are welcome: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, OpenTracing, CNCF, etc

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 an confidential.