Senior Software Engineer - Developer Productivity Engineering

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Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.

As an engineer in the DPE (Developer Productivity Engineering) team, you will be working on challenging problems building cutting edge infrastructure and tools for Snowflakes around the globe. Our mission is to provide a highly trusted and simple way for Snowflakes to deliver high quality products to our customers at scale.  This is an opportunity to have a big impact and break new ground in cross-cloud development.
 
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DPE AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL PERFORM ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:
  • Build the next generation scalable and reliable continuous integration system scaling to hundreds of thousands of nodes
  • Build systems to provide high fidelity developer environments across multiple cloud providers
  • Build excellent tools for code search, static and dynamic analysis, fast builds and distributed system debugging 
  • Build highly intuitive, self-service interfaces for developer environments, builds, and tests in the end-to-end development lifecycle
OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DPE WILL HAVE:
  • A strong desire and passion for automation and developer productivity
  • Experience in distributed systems and systems engineering
  • Experience in one or more of the following: intelligent test selection, continuous integration infrastructure, enterprise build systems (e.g. Bazel or Gradle), web service APIs, IDE plugins, command-line tool development, web UI development, static and dynamic code analysis
  • Expertise in one of our core languages (Go, Java or C++) and as a bonus one or more of the following: Python, NodeJS, Javascript, C, C# and Rust.
  • Strong working knowledge of software engineering best practices: unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, operational readiness, etc.
  • Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, especially in a cloud environment.
  • Great communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external developers.
  • Genuine enjoyment of the art of building great software, and a love of learning new things.
  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science equivalent majors or above.
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? BUILDING NEW ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGIES IS COMPLEX, AND OUR ENGINEERING TEAM SURMOUNTS THE OBSTACLES. AS A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, YOU WILL:
  • Build an industry-leading developer platform that customers love.
  • Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
  • Learn about and contribute to:
    • Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
    • Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
    • User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
  • Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.