Principal Software Engineer - Snowpark Container Services
Snowflake
- Bellevue, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Plan, lead, and execute complex technical projects that interact with a wide variety of teams within the company.
- Provide significant hands-on technical contribution as well as oversight in multiple functional areas of the product.
- Provide the technical and strategic direction to define and build a full eco-system of technologies and technical roadmap and vision.
- Develop and lead new ideas and innovations.
- Make contributions at the company-wide level with longer-term objectives, usually 1-3 years in duration.
- Be a key decision-maker on technical or business issues, which significantly impacts roles and responsibilities of others.
- Lead improvements to product stability and reliability, on-call and service health, customer support, diagnosability and manageability of the product.
- Influence leadership on technical direction and product/team investment/pivot needs.
- Work closely with our product, engineering and support teams to identify customer pain points and opportunities leading to building solutions that delights customers and unleash innovations.
- Mentor and guide other senior and junior engineers and grow a strong technical expertise in the team.
- 12+ years of industry experience building large scale container based compute infrastructure platforms that accelerates product innovations.
- 6+ years of experience building large scale distributed, fault-tolerant services.
- Experience building technical vision and delivering on it through concrete products.
- Experience building enterprise grade, reliable and maintainable infrastructure software or services.
- Experience building products or services with Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience in the AI and ML domain on the infrastructure side is a significant plus.
- Fluency in Java or Python required.
- Thrive in ambiguity and driving 0-1 projects.
- Ability to work in a fast moving team environment and collaborate well in a geographically diverse environment.
- Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office in a hybrid mode.