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Principal Software Engineer in USA

Snowflake
Full time
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USA
10/09/2026
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Menlo Park, CA

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable distributed systems for Snowflake cloud services.
Solve large-scale infrastructure, fault-tolerance, availability, performance, and scalability challenges.
Evaluate trade-offs among consistency, durability, and cost.
Ensure operational readiness and meet customer commitments for service availability and performance.
Mentor and develop junior engineers.
Apply software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills to business needs at large scale.

Requirements

15+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale production infrastructure.
Experience building large-scale distributed and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
Experience with container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
Strong understanding of operating-system concepts, including multithreading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale.
Strong understanding of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container-platform internals.

Salary: $264k - $380k/yr

Snowflake

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