Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations
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Your Impact: From Redesign to Reality 0->1 Architectural Leadership: Lead the ground-up redesign of our core Metadata systems, influencing the transaction frameworks that power query, DML, and AI-driven data interactions in addition to extending our lead on platform capabilities such as Zero Copy Cloning and Cross-Region / Cross-Cloud Replication. Iceberg Innovation: Drive industry-leading innovation on Apache Iceberg, ensuring it serves as a first-class citizen for Analytics, Data Engineering, and high-performance AI workloads. AI & Agentic Foundation: Build the foundational metadata capabilities - from richer metadata for AI workloads, to lifecycle management and global replication (Snowgrid)that allow AI agents to navigate, understand, and act upon massive datasets in a secure and governed fashion. Scalability & Resilience: Solve "impossible" challenges in fault-tolerance, scalability, high availability, and performance for services that must meet the demands of a rapidly growing global ecosystem. Strategic Influence: Own the end-to-end architecture, influence the product roadmap, and identify the next innovations that will keep Snowflake at the cutting edge of the AI era. Mentorship: Grow the next generation of engineers, fostering a culture of rigorous innovation and technical excellence. What You Bring 15+ years of experience designing and supporting large-scale distributed services. Deep Database Internals Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of metadata management, query optimization, clustering, compaction, catalogs, and large-scale data management. Systems Mastery: Excellent understanding of distributed systems, durability and correctness fundamentals, multi-threading, memory management, and storage performance. Cloud-Scale Track Record: A history of implementing creative, 0->1 solutions for complex problems at massive scale. CS Fundamentals: Strong mastery of data structures, algorithms, and the trade-offs between consistency and performance. Education: BS in Computer Science; an advanced degree is preferred. Why Snowflake? Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform, solving challenging technical problems related to security, parallelism, distributed systems, and large-scale system maintenance. Join a world-class team and innovate with rigor.