Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.
About the team
App Foundation’s backend team is powering systems and services for Snowsight, Snowflake’s cutting-edge UI. Our mission is to craft innovative backend services, features, tools and infrastructure that bring Snowsight to life with delightful user experiences. As part of our team, you'll dive into a mix of creating features and managing the robust infrastructure that supports them. We're passionate about building a platform that is highly reliable, available, maintainable, and scalable. We are a high growth SaaS company and we are looking for exceptional talent like you to help build and grow our infrastructure to scale us to the next level.
What you’ll do
Services: Design, build and maintain a set of common services and features like authentication, session management, notifications, caching and many more that our front end experiences need.
Developer Platform: Design, develop and maintain modules and recipes that full stack teams can leverage to develop, build and maintain their own services
Developer Environments: Provide backend environments so internal developers can iterate quickly and safely
Infrastructure: Automate and run our global fleet of services deployed across multiple cloud provider (AWS, Azure and GCP) regions.
OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
10+ years industry experience working on reliable large-scale cloud SaaS environments supporting mission critical, highly-concurrent, high-throughput and low-latency systems.
Experience leading teams as well as the ability to be an individual contributor and solve deep technical challenges.
Deep understanding of relational databases and/or key value stores. Experience with Postgres and Redis is desirable.
At least 3+ years experience in Kubernetes. Experience with Amazon EKS, Azure AKS or Google GKE highly desired.
Good knowledge of distributed systems, APIs and cloud computing patterns
Firm grasp of IP networking, load balancing and DNS.
Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving
Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
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