Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations

Snowflake · Engineering

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States · Menlo Park, California, United States · Remote, United States
Metro: Seattle, San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace: Hybrid
Level: Staff+
Type: Full-time
Pay: $304K–$437K/yr (published by employer)
Posted: 6 months ago
Source: Ashby

What the posting covers

About the company

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate…

The Mission: Building the Data Foundations for AI

We are the Snowflake Interoperable Foundations organization - the foundational layer that powers Snowflake’s AI, Analytics and Data Engineering capabilities. We lead innovations across open table formats such as Apache Iceberg, helping customers build…

Your Impact: From Redesign to Reality

0->1 Architectural Leadership: Lead the ground-up redesign of our core Metadata systems, influencing the transaction frameworks that power query, DML, and AI-driven data interactions in addition to extending our lead on platform capabilities such as Zero Copy…

What You Bring

15+ years of experience designing and supporting large-scale distributed services. Deep Database Internals Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of metadata management, query optimization, clustering, compaction, catalogs, and large-scale data management.…

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