Snowflake · AI infrastructure
Staff Software Engineer - Metadata
- Bellevue
- Full-time
- $236,000 - $339,200 / year
Still open on Snowflake's site · checked just now
- Level
- Staff or principal
- Education
- Bachelor's degreeor equivalent experience
- Posted
What you'll do
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Responsibilities
Lead the design of core metadata and replication systems across multiple teams.
Set technical direction for scalability, consistency, and fault tolerance of the metadata layer.
Drive cross-region and cross-cloud replication toward lower RPO and higher reliability.
Solve hard problems in performance, availability, and correctness at global scale.
Partner with Product and architects to turn customer needs into durable designs.
Raise the operational bar through observability, safe rollouts, and blast-radius controls.
Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leaders on the team.
Requirements
Core Requirements
10+ years building large-scale distributed systems or database internals.
Strong development skills in Java or C++.
Proven record leading multi-team technical initiatives from design to production.
Deep understanding of consistency, transactions, and fault tolerance.
BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
Skills
Stack
- Java
- C++
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Azure
Working languages
English
Company
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