Snowflake · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer - Applied Performance Group
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$236K/yr - $339K/yr
5+ years expSnowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and they are seeking a Staff Software Engineer in the Applied Performance Group. This role involves providing strategic support to product direction and addressing customer performance issues while collaborating with various teams to enhance Snowflake's offerings.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareSoftware
Responsibilities
Be an expert on the topics of Snowflake architecture, query processing, workload profiling, data engineering, and Snowflake tools
Be an expert in competitor solutions/products for analytics and data engineering
Define, automate, execute, and publish competitive benchmarks
Partner closely with other engineering teams to deliver both results and guidance on performance gaps, challenges, advantages, and disadvantages
Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and eco-system roadmaps
Qualification
Required
Minimum 5 years of experience in technical role delivering Database, Data Warehouse, or Data Engineering implementations and/or benchmark initiatives
Experience and ability to work directly with other engineering teams, product managers, and various levels of management
Strong communication skills, able to effectively communicate ideas and technical concepts to both technical and executive audiences
Broad understanding of cloud platforms and solutions, including experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack)
Proven track record of experience with Snowflake competitors
Deep understanding of complete data engineering and analytics stack and workflow, from data ingestion and load to transformation to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
Deep technical expertise in databases, data warehouses, data processing, and applications
Coding/programming experience in process automation
Strong SQL performance analysis experience, Python and/or Java expertise, and the ability to use tools to identify and articulate performance issues
Preferred
Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale databases and distributed data processing technology (e.g. Databricks, Spark, Netezza, Oracle, Teradata, Greenplum, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Synapse, Postgres, Apache Spark, Ray, Dask, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, etc.)
Software development experience with C/C++, Java, Scala, Spark
Scripting experience with Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash
Knowledge of and experience with AI and Machine Learning technologies either in use (eg. using a coding assistant), or in development (eg. using technologies like PyTorch for training and inference)
University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience
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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2025 (428)
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2023 (154)
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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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