Principal Software Engineer Manageability

Where Data Does More. Join the Snowflake team.

Snowflake is one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in history. As we scale rapidly, we're expanding our team to support and accelerate this growth. We're passionate about our people, our customers, our values, and our culture.

We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead key initiatives within Snowflake's globally distributed infrastructure.

Manageability is at the heart of our Data Cloud strategy. It powers cloud administration and serves as the primary gateway into the Snowflake platform-responsible for managing core entities that govern how customers operate within the system.

As more customers adopt multi-region and multi-cloud strategies, the complexity of modeling organizational hierarchies-such as accounts, users, access policies, and metadata-grows. These constructs must work reliably and consistently across cloud providers and geographies.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll play a critical role in designing and delivering foundational systems that scale with our customers and their data.

Join us and help shape the future of the AI Data Cloud.

• Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure

• Innovate and build large scale high reliability systems to manage the control and data plane of account and organization management.

• Architect for infrastructure to survive system outages, and provide a framework for handling critical systems.

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, data scientists, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions

• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability, and performance.

• 12+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.

• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

• Sharp original thinking to make the right choices and guide teams

• 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 to complex problems.

• Knowledge of database internals is a big plus.

• Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations

• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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.

How do you want to make your impact?

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

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $243,000 - $379,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.