Snowflake · 2 weeks ago
Senior Software Engineer- Open Source Analytics
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $288K/yr
5+ years expSnowflake is a company focused on empowering enterprises to become data-driven with cutting-edge technology. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Open Source Analytics team, you will innovate and build capabilities in the open data lake ecosystem, collaborating with the open source community and contributing to projects like Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris.
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Responsibilities
Pioneer new and innovative technical capabilities in the Open Source Analytics community. You will define and build next-generation capabilities on top of critical lakehouse building blocks like interoperable table formats, data catalogs, file formats, and query engines
Design and implement features and enhancements for Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris focusing on scalability, performance and usability such as Iceberg DML/DDL transactions, schema evolution, partitioning, time travel, and more
Collaborate with the Open source community by contributing code, participating in discussions and reviewing pull requests to ensure high quality contributions
Architect and build systems that integrate open source technologies seamlessly with Snowflake - enabling our customers to build and deploy massive data lake architectures across platforms and across cloud providers
Collaborate with Snowflake’s open-source team and the Apache Iceberg community to contribute new features and enhance the Iceberg table format and REST specification
Work on core data access control and governance features for Apache Polaris
Contribute to our managed Polaris service, Snowflake Open Catalog, enabling customers to seamlessly manage and expand their data lake through Snowflake as well as other external query engines like Spark and Trino
Build tooling and services that automate data lake table maintenance, including compaction, clustering, and data retention for enhanced query performance and efficiency
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems
Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, or C++ with an emphasis on performance and reliability
Deep understanding of distributed transaction processing, concurrency control, and high-performance query engines
Experience with open-source data lake formats (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Parquet, Delta) and the challenges associated with multi-engine interoperability
Experience building cloud-native services and working with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP
A passion for open-source software and community engagement, particularly in the data ecosystem
Familiarity with data governance, security, and access control models in distributed data systems
Preferred
Contributing to open-source projects, especially in the data infrastructure space
Designing or implementing REST APIs, particularly in the context of distributed systems
Managing large-scale data lakes or data catalogs in production environments
Working on highly-performant and scalable query engines such as Spark, Flink, or Trino
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Flexible spending & health savings account
At least 12 paid holidays
Paid time off
Parental leave
Employee assistance program
Other company benefits
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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