Snowflake · 7 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer II - Metadata
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$304K/yr - $437K/yr
15+ years expSnowflake is a company focused on empowering enterprises through innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design and develop scalable distributed systems for managing metadata, while driving industry-leading innovations in data engineering and AI.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareSoftware
Responsibilities
Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for Metadata
Create and own architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and identify new projects that will ensure Snowflake creates the best technology for our customers
Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them
Mentor and grow junior engineers
Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability and performance
Qualification
Required
15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services
Deep and broad expertise in a variety of database systems internals including metadata management, clustering, compaction, catalogs, storage and replication
Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
Excellent understanding of systems infrastructure product development and concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance, reliability and scalability
Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems at the cloud scale
Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations
BS in Computer Science
Preferred
Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred
Advanced degree preferred
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
H1B Sponsorship
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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
Recent News
2026-01-16
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