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Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations

Snowflake · US-WA-Bellevue · US-CA-Menlo Park

Big Tech AIremoteprincipal$304k–$437k
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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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