We’re hiring talented Senior Software Engineers to help us build the next generation of observability and alerting product, enabling our customers to use time series data, define alerts and receive notifications on their data as well as the operation of their pipelines in Snowflake. Having such a comprehensive mechanism will help our customers build a more comprehensive continuous data processing pipeline.

This position will work directly with our engineering team in Bellevue WA, led by industry-wide experts in observability, databases, and distributed data processing, to evolve our elastic, large-scale, high-performance data cloud into a new generation of observability  system. We are in need of strong  engineers who are enthusiastic about building new cutting edge technologies, looking forward to tackling complex data systems related problems and can pick up and understand deep technical areas quickly!

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

• Work with other engineers and PMs to define the functionality and design of our next generation observability platform.
• Be responsible for driving new feature development from inception, design, testing to the eventual release to address customer requirements and meet business goals.
• Build highly reliable software to meet and exceed the needs of our largest customers.
• Analyze fault-tolerance, availability, performance and scale challenges, and come up with appropriate solutions.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 7+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
• Experience building enterprise grade, reliable and trustworthy software or services.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Fluency in Java or C++.
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
• Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office.

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• Building modern data processing systems
• Experience in using or building observability and time series systems
• Database technologies including internal design and implementation
• Developing distributed systems internals
• Large scale distributed systems, transactions and consistency models.
• Implementing multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security.
• Designing and implementing systems for public or private clouds.