Snowflake · 5 months ago
Senior Software Engineer - Unistore Performance
US-WA-Bellevue
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$195K/yr - $288K/yr
8+ years expSnowflake is at the forefront of the Data and AI revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Unistore Performance team, focusing on optimizing performance and scalability of the Unistore product while developing tools for performance investigation and improvement.
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Responsibilities
Analyze Unistore performance and scalability, identify bottlenecks, and recommend and develop improvements in Unistore
Analyze production workloads, and develop synthetic workloads, chaos workloads and benchmarks
Develop tools to profile performance at runtime e.g. perf, eBPF, kernel tracing, flame graphs
Explore new execution hardware and new cluster configurations that improve the overall resource efficiency of the system
Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture
Participate in the design and implementation of next generation systems
Qualification
Required
8+ years hands-on software engineering experience
BS/MS/PhD in computer science (or equivalent)
Expertise in identifying and analyzing performance bottlenecks
Solid understanding of OS and systems concepts like process management, concurrency, memory management, IO patterns, file systems, block storage devices, etc
Work experience in cloud environments like AWS, Azure, GCP
Ability to work effectively both autonomously and in teams
Strong technical problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills
Excitement by the challenge of hard technical problems
Intense curiosity and willingness to question
Preferred
PhD in a performance related field such as networking, high performance computing
Good working knowledge of Linux / Unix OSes
Have worked on performance analysis for databases
Knowledge of NoSQL, SQL databases and database storage engines
Understanding of relational database concepts and SQL
Company
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.03BKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalICONIQ GrowthAltimeter Capital
2022-04-19Post Ipo Equity· $621.46M
2020-09-16IPO
2020-02-07Series G· $479M
Leadership Team
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Chief Executive Officer
Benoit Dageville
Snowflake Co-founder, President of Product
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