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Original Job Post

Snowflake · 4 days ago

Principal Data Scientist

San Mateo, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$180K/yr - $276K/yr

12+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Be a proactive partner to Product Management and Engineering to shape feature roadmaps and help design metrics and analytical workflows to evaluate their success and effectiveness.

Architect efficient data models and high-quality production pipelines and partner with Engineering for all necessary telemetry.

Build scalable and extensible analytics/ML frameworks to uncover feature usage patterns, subtle issues with the system, potential performance enhancements, and areas to improve customer experience.

Be an early adopter/pro user of Snowflake features and provide feedback on design parameters.

Evaluate the right surface (Snowflake Notebook/Worksheet/Snowsight Dashboards/Streamlit Apps) to disseminate your insights for maximal impact.

Influence decisions and drive initiatives with the Product Management and Engineering teams to drive better outcomes for our customers.

Answer questions from the executive team for reporting to the board and contribute to industry reports and similar publications.

Think creatively and be scrappy to find optimal solutions to our complex, often unstructured problems.

Qualification

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SQLPythonScikit-LearnNumPyPandasMachine LearningMPP DatabasesSnowflakeRedshiftBigQueryVerticaData StorytellingProblem-SolvingAdaptability

Required

MS/Ph.D. in quantitative discipline (Math, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Engineering, or CS)

12+ years of relevant data science or related experience

Expert-level experience working with SQL & Python including scikit-learn, numpy, and pandas

Expert in working with large-scale machine generated data (e.g., logs, application telemetry, or customer usage data)

High fluency with MPP databases, such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Vertica, etc

Expert data-driven storytelling skills to convey insights to business leaders and technical stakeholders and influence decisions

The ability to thrive in a dynamic environment, being flexible and willing to jump in and do whatever it takes to contribute to the success of your area

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible spending account

Health savings account

At least 12 paid holidays

Paid time off

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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