Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

2 hours ago


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

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join our team at Snowflake Computing. As a key member of our Service-runtime team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing scalable distributed systems for our services layer.

Key Responsibilities
  • Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills
  • Designing and implementing scalable distributed systems for our services layer
  • Analyzing fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solving them
  • Leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams
  • Understanding trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services
  • Ensuring operational readiness of the services and meeting 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 preferred
  • Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud)
  • BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred
What We Offer

At Snowflake Computing, we offer a competitive benefits package, including 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.

We are growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

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