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Principal Software Engineer - Elastic Global Services

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-CA-Menlo Park$264k - $379.5kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Elastic Global Services team builds Snowflake’s highly available, scalable, multi-tenant Cloud Services platform underpinning Snowflake services across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Focus areas include autoscaling, cluster management, workload orchestration, and high-performance distributed systems. Role emphasizes solving large-scale distributed systems problems, mentoring, and ensuring operational readiness to meet availability and performance commitments.

Responsibilities

  • Solving real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
  • Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our cloud services.
  • Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
  • Mentor and grow junior engineers.
  • Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.
  • Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant infrastructure.
  • Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
  • Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
  • Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designFault tolerance and high availabilityContainer orchestration
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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