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Snowflake · 2 months ago

Principal Software Engineer - Snowhouse Foundation

positionUS-CA-Menlo Park
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff
money$243K/yr - $380K/yr
date15+ years exp

Snowflake is focused on empowering enterprises through innovation and collaboration. The Principal Software Engineer in the Snowhouse Foundation will design and implement distributed platforms and enhance Snowflake's data infrastructure while providing technical leadership and collaborating with various teams.

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Responsibilities

Design and implement innovative highly available distributed platforms and pipelines and enhance the overall Snowflake data infrastructure
Lead and drive projects from idea formulation to design, implementation and successful productionization
Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, data science organizations, business groups, on end to end solutions
Provide strong technical leadership to the team and partner teams
Enable the data science organization, business groups, engineering teams to build comprehensive analytics quickly and effectively

Qualification

Distributed systemsCloud environmentsData infrastructureMachine LearningHands-on skillsCollaboration skillsCommunication skills

Required

15+ years of experience in distributed systems, some of which are in data warehouse or data infrastructure software development
Strong track record of delivering large scale and resilient distributed systems and services
Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Experience in distributed systems and databases
Strong hands-on skills. Can dive deep into the complex system design and implementation when needed
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

Preferred

Experience in ML is a plus

Company

Snowflake

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Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.
dateFounded in 2012
location
San Mateo, California, USA
people-size5001-10000 employees
web-link
https://www.snowflake.com

H1B Sponsorship

Snowflake has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (428)
2024 (281)
2023 (154)
2022 (182)
2021 (113)
2020 (98)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$2.03B
Key Investors
Sequoia CapitalICONIQ GrowthAltimeter Capital
2022-04-19Post Ipo Equity· $621.46M
2020-09-16IPO
2020-02-07Series G· $479M

Leadership Team

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Sridhar Ramaswamy
Chief Executive Officer
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Benoit Dageville
Snowflake Co-founder, President of Product
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