Principal Engineer, Storage

Snowflake

full-time

Posted on: 9/4/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington

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💰 $243,000 - $379,500 per year

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AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaNoSQLSQL

About the role

Connect the business with technology to deliver capabilities to existing and new Snowflake customers
Innovate and redefine the future of unstructured data storage, access, and processing in the Snowflake cloud
Architect, design, and implement new systems and solutions that further the Snowflake Data Infrastructure platform
Collaborate closely with Product managers, Architects, other engineering teams, and other functions to design and build new technologies for customers
Mentor and coach other engineers across multiple organizations
Participate in on-call rotation and shape strategy to keep on-call load low while enabling 10x growth
Build the world's best storage management platform, enhance disaster recovery and AI integrations, and provide enterprise-grade cloud-native storage for containerized workloads

15+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale durable distributed systems in production
Proven track record of leading and delivering multi-year large and complex projects that span multiple organizations in the Storage space (object storage, data warehouse, SQL/NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, etc)
Strong development skills in Java and C++
Experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Demonstrated ability to achieve alignment across multiple organizations and disciplines to motivate and bring complex technical solutions to life
An excellent team player who is committed to helping everyone around them maximize their potential and growth
Be aligned with the Snowflake values
A background in building Machine Learning infrastructure and managing large data storage for ML models is a plus.