Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations
Snowflake · US-WA-Bellevue · US-CA-Menlo Park
Big Tech AIremoteprincipal$304k–$437k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead 0-to-1 redesign of core metadata and storage architecture.
- Build the contextual engine powering autonomous AI on exabyte-scale data.
- Bring industry-leading performance and governance to data anywhere in the world.
Ideal candidate
AI-native systems thinker with deep distributed systems experience who thrives leading 0-to-1 architecture in fast-moving, low-ego teams and is energized by making open data AI-ready at global scale.
Requirements
- 15+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
- Deep expertise building database, metadata management, query optimization, data catalog, compaction, or large-scale state management systems
- History of implementing greenfield, cloud-scale solutions and migrating high-throughput distributed systems
- Strong grasp of storage performance, distributed consistency trade-offs, and algorithms
Lab profile
About Snowflake
Cloud data platform for storage, analytics, data sharing, and enterprise AI workloads.
What they build
- Snowflake Data Cloud
- Data warehousing and data lakes
- Snowpark developer framework
Known for
- Elastic scalable cloud architecture
- Secure governance and data sharing
- Multi-cloud analytics and AI
Key facts
- Founded in 2012
- Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana
- Public company (NYSE: SNOW)
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