Staff Software Engineer - Metadata
Snowflake · US-WA-Bellevue
Big Tech AIonsitestaff$236k–$339k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own the brain of Snowflake powering every query, table and transaction.
- Build cross-region, cross-cloud replication keeping data available in outages.
- Solve performance, availability and correctness problems at global scale.
Ideal candidate
Low-ego, AI-native distributed systems leader energized by hard correctness and availability problems who mentors others and turns customer needs into durable, global-scale designs.
Requirements
- 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems or database internals
- Strong development skills in Java or C++
- Proven record leading multi-team technical initiatives from design to production
- Deep understanding of consistency, transactions, and fault tolerance
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience with FoundationDB or other distributed key-value stores
- Experience building replication, disaster recovery, or geo-distributed systems
- Experience with database metadata, catalogs, or query compilation
- Experience running services on AWS, Azure, or GCP
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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