Senior Software Engineer - Database Platform
Company: Snowflake, Inc
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: September 26, 2024
Job Description:
Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.A massive new
market opportunity is being created at the intersection of Cloud
and Data, and the Snowflake Data Cloud is leading the way, all
powered by the database engine we are building from the ground
up.Key to Snowflake's Database Engine is our large scale
distributed transactional Key-Value store - called FDB - which
powers all of Snowflake's products and services and is rapidly
evolving to meet Snowflake's future needs.We are looking for an
outstanding Senior Software Engineer with a passion for large scale
databases and distributed systems to help us take the FDB platform
to the next level.AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER ON THIS TEAM, YOU
WILL:
- Design and implement scalable distributed system solutions for
our cloud agnostic platform.
- Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues,
performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
- Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying
a solution, to design, implementation, test and safe production
rollout.
- Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs
to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing
services.
- Build the next generation transaction system, caching, storage
engine and multi tenant capabilities.
- Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end
architecture.
- Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed,
and ultimately implement solutions.AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
- 5+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting
large scale infrastructure in production.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale
distributed systems infrastructure supporting stateful
services.
- Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or
autoscaling.
- Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including
multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage,
performance and scale.
- Systems programming skills including multi-threading,
concurrency, etc. Fluency in Java, C++, or C is preferred.
- Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos,
OpenShift, or other container platforms.
- Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB,
RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. a plus.
- Track record of delivering highly complex projects in the
distributed systems space.
- Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for
making systems better.
- Experience with one or more of the following highly desired:
- Big Data storage technologies and their applications (HDFS,
Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.)
- Scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB,
RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra, etc.
- BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.About
Snowflake:About FoundationDB: -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.The following represents the expected range of
compensation for this role:
- The estimated base salary range for this role is $154,000 -
$224,200.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in
Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.The successful candidate's
starting salary will be determined based on permissible,
non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and
geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive
package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and
disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending &
health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off;
parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company
benefits.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?
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Keywords: Snowflake, Inc, San Mateo , Senior Software Engineer - Database Platform, IT / Software / Systems , San Mateo, California
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