Senior Distributed Systems Architect

4 days ago


San Mateo, California, United States Snowflake Computing Full time
About Snowflake Computing

Snowflake empowers thousands of organizations to unlock the value of their data with high scale, concurrency, and performance. Our vision is a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.

Role Overview

We are responsible for the core distributed systems that enable higher layers to build elastic, resilient, and highly available services. Those services provide functionality which covers data consistency, feature usage tracking, internal/external observability, automatic tuning, data persistence, queues, caches, locks, and more.

Key Responsibilities
  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills
  • Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our query platform
  • Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance, and scale challenges, and solve them
  • Leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with engineers, product managers, and Technical Program Managers across teams
  • Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability, and availability 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 availability and performance
Requirements
  • 5+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production
  • Experience building large-scale distributed fault-tolerant services
  • Excellent understanding of low-level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, and storage, performance, and scale
  • Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
  • Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java is preferred
  • Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Experience building data-focused systems at cloud scale
  • BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred
What We Offer

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

The estimated base salary range for this role is $246,100 - $376,913. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan. The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes 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; and other company benefits.



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