About the position
Join the Snowflake team to build the Data Cloud Platform at an exceptional scale. We are hiring talented Software Engineers for our Platform Infrastructure Engineering team to build a world class Configuration Management and feature flagging platform. The team's vision is to empower every engineering team at Snowflake to ship confidently, experiment fearlessly, and innovate responsibly-through a robust, observable, and secure configuration management and feature flagging platform. If you are passionate about solving complex infrastructure challenges by using software engineering expertise, this opportunity may be for you. The team's mission is to design, build, and evolve a reliable and flexible configuration management framework that enables granular control and safe feature rollouts with powerful flagging mechanisms, seamless experimentation through features and knobs for effective A/B/n testing, end-to-end observability and auditability for visibility into config usage, impact, and history, and developer enablement by providing intuitive APIs, self-service tools, and best-in-class libraries.
Responsibilities
- Build a deep understanding of Snowflake's infrastructure and services.
- Demonstrate both infrastructure and software engineering expertise by contributing to the team charter to build and operate highly scalable, resilient, and performant infrastructure.
- Work on large and complex projects that build frameworks, platforms, tools, and automation which will serve and enable the various other engineering teams at Snowflake.
- Build intuitive and resilient APIs and libraries for other developers as well as Snowflake customers.
- Evangelize and drive adoption of the Platform & Framework built by the team to meet business goals.
- Support junior team members, contribute with excellent code quality, documentation, and software development best practices.
Requirements
- BS/CS, MS/CS, or equivalent.
- At least 5+ years of experience in software development (SaaS experience preferred).
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, coding skills, and knowledge of software development best practices.
- Strong bias towards action and not afraid to take up manual and operational tasks to get things done.
- Strong sense of ownership and desire to build great tools & frameworks for other engineers.
- Fluent in one or more languages (Golang, Java, Python, C++).
- Tremendous attention to detail and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
- A strong work ethic, ability to self-manage and drive project success, and a passion for problem-solving.
- Motivated by solving problems & delivering solutions, not by the tools, novelty, or glamour of the challenge.
- Comfortable with projects that begin with incomplete information or ambiguity.
Benefits
- 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.
- Other company benefits.
