# Principal Software Engineer I - Snowhouse Foundation

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $264k – $380k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Data Warehouse, AWS, Azure, GCP, Databases, Machine Learning, Cloud, Data Infrastructure, Scalable Systems
**Posted:** 2026-02-26

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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