Principal Software Engineer

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Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.

Snowflake is reimagining what a modern Postgres experience can be. The Snowflake Postgres team is building a fully managed, cloud-native Postgres service that delivers the reliability, performance, and scale developers expect that is paired with a data experience that seamlessly ties into Snowflake.

As a Principal Engineer, you'll help define the architecture, push the boundaries of Postgres in the cloud, and shape one of Snowflake's most strategic new products.

• Serve as the technical leader on our most critical, cross-functional projects.
• Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties to reach solutions that are scalable, tractable, and timely.
• Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder by building the roadmap while delivering it.
• Leverage your experience to balance long-term thinking with more immediate business needs.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability, performance, and security.
• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, databases, or cloud services.
• Appreciation of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals.
• Strong systems programming experience (Ruby experience a strong plus).
• Experience building high-availability, multi-tenant, or highly distributed data systems.
• Comfortable navigating large, complex codebases and leading cross-team architecture efforts.
• A track record of driving projects from concept to production with measurable impact.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across engineering and product organizations.
• Passion for making Postgres better, simpler, and more powerful for developers everywhere.

• Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform.
• Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
• Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.
• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $264,000 - $379,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.
• This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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Location:

Bellevue, WA (Remote available)