Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer, Metadata

Snowflake

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsJava

About the role

  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
  • Build the next-generation transaction system, storage engine and multi-tenant database system.
  • Design, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system including a decentralized caching system of terabytes of metadata.
  • Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever growing request rate of the database.
  • Design and implement core infrastructure features including APIs, DDL transactions and logs as well as advanced features such as cloning, time travel, snapshots and replication.
  • Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks and solve them.
  • Work on background services powering Snowflake's multi-level metadata system to support fast compilation and query optimization.
  • Ensure operational readiness of services and meet commitments regarding availability and performance.

Requirements

  • 5+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
  • Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, etc.
  • Fluency in Java (or other similar procedural object-oriented language) is preferred.
  • Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.
  • Knowledge of database internals is a big plus.
  • BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.