Principal Software Engineer

Snowflake Inc. • Bellevue, WA • 2h ago

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential - and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology - and careers - to the next level.
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential - and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology - and careers - to the next level.
Snowflake is reimagining what a modern Postgres experience can be. The Snowflake Postgres team is building a fully managed, cloud-native Postgres service that delivers the reliability, performance, and scale developers expect that is paired with a data experience that seamlessly ties into Snowflake.
As a Principal Engineer, you'll help define the architecture, push the boundaries of Postgres in the cloud, and shape one of Snowflake's most strategic new products.
AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
Serve as the technical leader on our most critical, cross-functional projects.
Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties to reach solutions that are scalable, tractable, and timely.
Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder by building the roadmap while delivering it.
Leverage your experience to balance long-term thinking with more immediate business needs.
Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability, performance, and security.
Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, databases, or cloud services.
Appreciation of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals.
Strong systems programming experience (Ruby experience a strong plus).
Experience building high-availability, multi-tenant, or highly distributed data systems.
Comfortable navigating large, complex codebases and leading cross-team architecture efforts.
A track record of driving projects from concept to production with measurable impact.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across engineering and product organizations.
Passion for making Postgres better, simpler, and more powerful for developers everywhere.
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?
Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI 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.
Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
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?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
The estimated base

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