{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"573bc13e7c19c3d6cc451e6f","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/573bc13e7c19c3d6cc451e6f","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/573bc13e7c19c3d6cc451e6f","title":"Principal Software Engineer II - Metadata","description":"Principal Software Engineer At SnowflakeAt Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don't just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.\r\nWe are the Snowflake Metadata team. We own Snowflake's metadata systems that make it easy for customers to query, modify and manage their petabyte-scale data. We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake's query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities. We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace.\r\nOur mission is to build the next generation Metadata Platform that will significantly unlock new capabilities for Snowflake across Iceberg, unstructured data and extending Snowflake's enterprise capabilities. Your work will drive industry leading innovation on Iceberg, Analytics, Data Engineering and AI.\r\nAs A Principal Software Engineer At Snowflake You Will:Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.\r\nDesign, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for Metadata.\r\nCreate and own architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and identify new projects that will ensure Snowflake creates the best technology for our customers.\r\nAnalyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.\r\nMentor and grow junior engineers.\r\nUnderstand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.\r\nEnsure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability and performance.\r\nOur Ideal Principal Software Engineer Will Have:15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services.\r\nDeep and broad expertise in a variety of database systems internals including metadata management, clustering, compaction, catalogs, storage and replication.\r\nStrong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.\r\nExcellent understanding of systems infrastructure product development and concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance, reliability and scalability.\r\nFluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred.\r\nTrack record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems at the cloud scale.\r\nAbility to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations\r\nBS in Computer Science; Advanced degree preferred.\r\nWhy Join The Engineering Team At Snowflake?Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform.\r\nSolve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!\r\nWork closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.\r\nJoin a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.\r\nSnowflake 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.\r\nHow do you want to make your impact?","company":"Snowflake Computing","rawCompany":"snowflake computing","city":"Menlo Park","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-09T08:04:04.976Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1243.01","title":"Data Warehousing Specialists","slug":"data-warehousing-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Principal Software Engineer II - Metadata","description":"Principal Software Engineer At SnowflakeAt Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. 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We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake's query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities. We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace.\r\nOur mission is to build the next generation Metadata Platform that will significantly unlock new capabilities for Snowflake across Iceberg, unstructured data and extending Snowflake's enterprise capabilities. 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