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Snowflake customers have more than 3.9 billion queries and more than 515 million data workloads that run each day. Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
The Snowflake Cloud Engineering team is a global team of high performing engineers focused on building best in class tooling, automation, and a scalable infrastructure platform to run the Snowflake service. The team's focus areas include Snowflake's global scale multi-cloud infrastructure, core platform services, edge traffic delivery, and reliability engineering.
We are looking for talented and passionate Senior Software Engineers to join our Traffic & Edge team. Snowflake's Traffic and Edge infrastructure consists of reverse proxy and load balancing systems running in multiple public clouds. These systems deal with DNS management, TLS termination, load balancing, CDNs, and traffic routing. The critical nature of these services demands a very high level of reliability.
As more and more customers globally start using Snowflake in a variety of ways, the Edge will need to support more features and sustain higher throughput while remaining reliable. We have been on a significant growth journey at Snowflake, with the volumes of data constantly accelerating, and as such there will be substantial opportunities to drive reliability, security, and performance improvements at the Traffic & Edge layer. Interested in joining us to solve these complex platform engineering challenges?
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Design, lead and own significant projects with an impact felt far beyond your team. Contribute to the design and operation of our highly reliable, secure, scalable, and performant infrastructure. Develop the software to grow our fleet of services and deployments. Participate in our on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services. Use your deep experience and problem solving skills to help investigate and fix production issues, and drive blameless incident post-mortems to document learnings and prevent recurrences. Plan and lead complex technical projects while partnering with a wide variety of teams within the company. OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE MOST OF THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS: BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related major, or equivalent experience. A track record of planning, running and delivering cross team projects. Experience with at least one advanced programming language such as C++, Java, Go, Python. Experience with running HTTP, DNS and TLS infrastructure. Hands on experience with one or more public cloud providers such as AWS/Azure/GCP. Experience with Traffic/Edge Engineering or Cloud Networking. Experience with automating operations (e.g., software deployments, config changes) at scale. Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet). Experience with core SRE/Production Engineering best practices (e.g., designing for operability and scalability, adopting SLOs, eliminating toil, leading incident responses, driving blameless post-mortems).
Evidence of engineering leadership through design ownership and reviews, mentoring, contributing to technical roadmaps, and driving process improvements.
We value a strong growth mindset at Snowflake, so we would love to hear from you even if you don't meet all the requirements above!
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 $187,000 - $276,000. 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 benefits 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.
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