Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations

Snowflake
Bellevue, Menlo Park
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 304,000 - 437,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 15+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Mentoring","Teamwork","Problem-solving"]

Lead the design, development, and operation of fault-tolerant, scalable distributed metadata systems for Snowflake. You’ll shape architecture, mentor engineers, optimize for consistency, performance, and cost, and collaborate across locations to deliver a next-generation metadata platform enabling Iceberg, data engineering, and AI capabilities at cloud scale.

Loading

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

FursaFursa
Snowflake
Snowflake
9 months ago

Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI
Last checked: 1 hour agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Lead the design, development, and operation of fault-tolerant, scalable distributed metadata systems for Snowflake. You’ll shape architecture, mentor engineers, optimize for consistency, performance, and cost, and collaborate across locations to deliver a next-generation metadata platform enabling Iceberg, data engineering, and AI capabilities at cloud scale.
Location: Bellevue, Menlo Park
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
  • •Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for Metadata.
  • •Create and own architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and identify new projects that will ensure Snowflake creates the best technology for our customers.
  • •Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
  • •Mentor and grow junior engineers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 304,000 - 437,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services.
Experience:15+ yearsCloudDistributed systemsMetadataIcebergData engineeringAI
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science
Skills:MentoringTeamworkProblem-solving
Tech Stack:JavaDistributed systemsMultithreadingMemory managementNetworkingStorage

Company Brief

Snowflake
Provides a cloud-native data platform for data warehousing, data engineering, data science, and analytics, enabling organizations to store, process, and share large-scale data across multiple cloud providers with elastic scalability and performance.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Bozeman, United States
Founded: 2012
WebsiteLinkedIn