Principal Software Engineer I - Snowhouse Foundation
Leads design and implementation of highly available distributed platforms and pipelines for Snowflake's petabyte-scale data warehouse. Requires 15+ years in distributed systems and data infrastructure, with cloud expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and implement innovative highly available distributed platforms and pipelines and enhance the overall Snowflake data infrastructure.
- Lead and drive projects from idea formulation to design, implementation and successful productionization.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, data science organizations, business groups, on end to end solutions.
- Provide strong technical leadership to the team and partner teams.
- Enable the data science organization, business groups, engineering teams to build comprehensive analytics quickly and effectively.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in distributed systems, some of which are in data warehouse or data infrastructure software development.
- Strong track record of delivering large scale and resilient distributed systems and services.
- Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Experience in distributed systems and databases.
- Experience in ML is a plus.
- Strong hands-on skills. Can dive deep into the complex system design and implementation when needed.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Data Warehouse, AWS, Azure, GCP, Databases, Machine Learning, Cloud, Data Infrastructure, Scalable Systems
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