Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
Our Quality Engineering team is actively seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Test to the Iceberg team to join our fast-growing organization. In this role, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the testing organization. You will be driving the development of end-to-end automated tests, automation frameworks, and tools to have robust automated testing pipelines for the Snowflake Data Cloud.
Reporting to the Quality Engineering Manager, you will collaborate with a world-class team of industry veterans and rising stars to ensure that we are shipping the highest-quality service possible at each weekly release. This is an awesome opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technology in a highly visible role
Working on the Iceberg team, you will have the opportunity to drive quality and innovation across all of the investments that Snowflake is making in the open data lake landscape. This will include working with industry-standard interoperable table formats and analytic engines, as well as ensuring quality and consistency for Snowflake data lake customer scenarios, across the Snowflake Data Cloud.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:
- Partner with a project team of engineers, designers and Technical Program Managers to drive quality early and often in SDLC
- Drive quality across all disciplines, providing guidance, feedback, and suggestions to improve quality practices across engineering organization
- Contribute to technical leadership and strategic direction to continuously improve the Quality Engineering Organization
- Author and enhance test plans based on feature requirements and specifications, as well as technical discussions and deep dives with engineers
- Build, enhance and maintain automation frameworks utilized by the team to automate critical user scenarios for regression testing
- Prioritize and execute test scenarios in a Snowflake environment that’s representative of customers’ schema and workloads
- Partner with Support and Engineering to investigate, troubleshoot and identify/implement fixes for customer-facing issues
- Work with industry-leading data lake technologies and table formats, like Iceberg
- Leverage and grow your hands-on skills across other analytic engines (Spark, Trino, etc)
ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
- 8+ years of hands-on software and quality engineering experience
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of standard quality best practices, techniques and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements
- Strong experience writing API smoke, regression, and end-to-end tests to ensure integration points are thoroughly tested
- Knowledge and experience with different security areas like identity and access management, cryptography, network security, etc.
- Strong database understanding including SQL
- Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment systems like Jenkins
- Strong CS fundamentals including OO concepts, data structures, and distributed systems
- Strong API test automation experience
- Fluency in Java, C++ and/or Python is preferred
- Proven experience developing comprehensive and effective Test and Performance tools, as well as frameworks.
- Hands-on experience working with data lake technologies and ecosystems (Spark, Trino, Iceberg, Delta, etc) preferred
- Experience working with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure), especially Storage platforms, preferred
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? AS A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, YOU WILL :
- Build an industry-leading data management system that customers love.
- Measurably impact an innovative product area central to Snowflake’s success.
- Take charge of your own career—this role has the impact and ability to grow technically and from a leadership perspective.
- Ensure the quality, performance, and reliability of a super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
- Learn at scale as you work on a highly scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines and executes Billions of queries.
- Ensure that we are shipping the highest quality service possible at each release.
- Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
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.