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Original Job Post

Snowflake · 5 days ago

Principal Production Engineer

San Mateo, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$235K/yr - $368K/yr

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Responsibilities

Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement.

Scale systems sustainably by automation; Drive changes that improve reliability and velocity.

Establish and practice low noise incident response rotations and blameless postmortems to prevent problem recurrence.

Write and review code. Develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the hardest problems on large distributed systems.

Collaborate with software engineers to establish, maintain, and optimize functional and performance SLAs.

Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

Qualification

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Programming Language ProficiencyProblem-SolvingEffective CommunicationCapacityLoad testingContainersKubernetesLinux infrastructurePerformance measurementBenchmarkingPublic cloud providers AWSPublic cloud providers AzurePublic cloud providers GCPPrioritize tasksWork independently

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Proficient in at least one modern programming language

Systematic problem-solving methods

Effective communication skills

Preferred

Experience capacity and load testing distributed applications

Experience with containers and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes

Experience in deploying, managing, and operating scalable and fault-tolerant Linux infrastructure

Hands-on operational experience performance measurement and benchmarking

Hands-on experience with one or more public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible spending account

Health savings account

At least 12 paid holidays

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Other company benefits

Company

Snowflake

Glassdoor

4.0

Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse-as-a-service designed for the cloud.

Founded in 2012

San Mateo, California, USA

5,001-10,000 employees

https://www.snowflake.com

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