Senior Software Engineer - Snowpark Container Services

About the position

Join the Snowflake team as a Senior Software Engineer for our Snowpark Container Service, part of our Snowflake Compute Platform. You will build our elastic, high-scale, high-performance, cloud native compute platform to enable bringing Compute to Data effortlessly and simply. Snowpark Container Services is a fully managed container offering that helps our customers easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without having to move data out of Snowflake. As a fully managed service, it comes with Snowflake security, configuration, and operational best practices built in. You will be part of a highly productive, fast-moving, and growing team that is critical to realizing Snowflake's Data Cloud Mission.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
• Lead a team of engineers, including mentoring and guiding them, and build technical direction and strategy for large and critical parts of the product surface area.
• Manage all aspects of the Project, including Design, Coding, Reviews, Testing, Observability, Tooling and On-Call support.
• Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
• Ensure operational readiness and maintainability of the service with heavy focus on reliability, availability, debuggability and performance.
• Design and build Kubernetes based OCI compliant container compute platform features and capabilities that scale and evolve with changing business and customer needs.

Requirements

• 7+ years of industry experience building features and capabilities of large scale systems or infrastructure level platforms.
• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills and experience building distributed systems.
• Hands-on coding experience in Java, C++ or Go is highly desirable.
• Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience building products or services with Kubernetes.
• Designing and implementing products and features with multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Implementing multi-tenant systems with focus on performance, isolation and security.