Senior Software Engineer

Requirements

• 5+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems.
• Experience with high performance and scalable software in an internet scale distributed cloud environment.
• Fluency in Java.
• Experience with SQL. Good understanding of relational databases.
• Interest in creating well thought out infrastructure and APIs.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, especially in a cloud environment.
• Great communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external developers.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and develop data integration and processing applications. These applications replicate data from various data sources (including relational databases, saas, data streams) into Snowflake, following CDC patterns.
• Develop and extend a robust connector platform to standardise and accelerate the development of connectors, either developed by Snowflake or by third parties. Typical example includes developing a scheduling service ensuring timely execution of tasks and optimal resource allocation.
• Optimize performance of the ingestion, meet with customers & troubleshoot issues and secure data transfer from external systems.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization and roles.
• Create design documents and present them to architects and other stakeholders, including company founders.
• Lead and mentor a group of engineers
• Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous communication to ensure goals are met.
• Collaborate with PMs and customers to understand business requirements, and translate them into connector application solutions.

Why Join the Engineering Team at Snowflake?

• Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.
• Learn about and contribute to:
  • Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
  • Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
  • User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.