Senior Storage Engineer - Storage Core Platform

Storage Platform is a crucial part of Snowflake’s continued success and is one of the fastest-growing segments at Snowflake. Our table storage is the best in the industry, with differentiators like auto partitioning, auto compression, enhanced encryption, time travel, fail-safe, cross-region replication, zero-copy clone, instant data sharing, etc. As a result, Snowflake table storage has gained immense popularity in the last few years. But we won’t stop there.

Snowflake’s mission is to mobilize the world’s data by building the greatest data and applications platform. Not just of the cloud era, but in the history of computing. To enable this mission it is crucial for the Storage team to continue innovation in the multi-cloud space and to accelerate progress in the field of unstructured data management and processing.

We’re seeking talented senior software engineers to execute and accelerate Snowflake’s multi-cloud strategy vision by laying the foundation for Storage team’s observability “v.Next”. 

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER: STORAGE CORE PLATFORM YOU WILL: 

• Solve real, pressing business needs at scale by applying your software engineering skills, as well as analytical problem solving and collaboration skills
• Lay the foundation for Storage core platforms’ observability roadmap, from design to production
• Collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to design and build new technologies that will unlock new revenue streams and maximize existing ones by providing deeper insights, improving performance, and reliability of the systems that underpin all of the Snowflake.
• Participate in on-call rotation and shape the strategy for continuing to keep the on-call load low, while enabling 10x growth

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 5+ years relevant industry experience working on distributed persistent systems, or equivalent
• Have fluent, high quality coding skills, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Alignment with the Snowflake values
• Previous experience in setting and delivering internal service metrics that represent the customer experience, that inform further improvements to the product.
• Have experience in systems programming including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java (or other similar procedural object-oriented language) is preferred
• Have experience with at least one of the public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) as a plus.

Snowflake is continuing to grow quickly and we are scaling our teams to help enable and accelerate growth of Snowflake and your career.
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