Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support a distributed cloud control plane system, ensuring it is highly scalable and reliable.
• Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud.
• Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout.
• Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting our customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance.
• Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies.
• Develop tools to provide better observability and insights for the system.
• Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers on the team.

Requirements

• 6+ years of industry experience working on commercial software.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• A solid foundation in distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, scaling, failure recovery) and strong fluency in Java.
• Experience with implementation using AI agents and cross team collaborations, understanding and reviewing human and AI generated code, manual and automated testing, debugging, and deploying to production at fast pace balancing speed and quality.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Nice-to-Haves

• SQL or other database control plane technologies including internal design and implementation.
• Experience with working on deploying and managing distributed key value stores like FoundationDB across multiple clouds.