Principal Software Engineer - Elastic Global Services

About the Position

Principal Software Engineer - Elastic Global Services

Snowflake is revolutionizing the era of the agentic enterprise. We are seeking AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset - who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

The Elastic Global Services team is responsible for building the highly available, scalable, multi-tenant “Cloud Services” platform that underpins Snowflake services. Areas we work on include the autoscaling of VMs from cloud providers, managing topologies of our compute clusters, cluster management, workload orchestration, and many others. We are looking at expanding our team to handle the next big challenges for Snowflake customers.

Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability, and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it. In our effort to enable our Data Cloud vision, we are actively hiring talented distributed systems engineers. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, large-scale, high-performance computing environment.

To learn more about the team’s tech stack, see our recent talk at ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing! Link

Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake, you will:

• Solve real business needs at a large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our cloud services.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance, and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Mentor and grow junior engineers.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability, 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 availability and performance.

Requirements

Our ideal distributed systems engineer will have:

• 15+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale infrastructure in production.
• Experience building large-scale distributed fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
• Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, and storage, performance, and scale.
• Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.

We Offer

• Build an industry-leading Cloud Data 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.

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.

About the Company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. Our mission is to enable our customers to use their data to drive their business forward. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to do their best work.

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com