Senior Software Engineer, Compute Service

Highlights

• Shape core compute services that power warehouse-backed work across Snowflake.
• Build scheduling control plane for async, scheduled and elastic query compute.
• Balance performance, cost and reliability for shared compute at large scale.

Ideal candidate

Low-ego, experimental distributed systems builder energized by large-scale reliability challenges. You treat AI as a collaborator and care about redefining how cloud compute work gets done.

Requirements

• Substantial industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production
• Experience building large-scale distributed fault-tolerant services and control planes
• Strong understanding of OS concepts including multi-threading, networking, storage and performance
• Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and distributed systems
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading and concurrency
• Fluency in Java preferred
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience