Storage Platform is a crucial part of Snowflake’s continued success and is one of the fastest-growing segments at Snowflake. Our table storage is the best in the industry, with differentiators like auto partitioning, auto compression, enhanced encryption, time travel, fail-safe, cross-region replication, zero-copy clone, instant data sharing, etc. As a result, Snowflake table storage has gained immense popularity in the last few years. But we won’t stop there.

Snowflake’s mission is to mobilize the world’s data by building the greatest data and applications platform. Not just of the cloud era, but in the history of computing. To enable this mission it is crucial for the Storage team to continue innovation in the multi-cloud space and to accelerate progress in the field of unstructured data management and processing.

We’re seeking talented senior software engineers to help drive our continued growth in the space of storage management.

Immediate areas of focus are:

1. Improve storage integrations for our customers, further empowering them to accelerate on the multi-cloud journey, data safety, and business continuity
2. Deliver the lifecycle management improvements to the data under Snowflake management
3. Expand the customer facing Storage APIs for simplicity of use and opening new scenarios

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN STORAGE MANAGEMENT, YOU WILL:

• Build the next-generation multi-cloud business continuity solutions requested by largest Snowflake customers
• Accelerate delivery of the lifecycle management solutions for Snowflake customers
• Deliver new set of customer facing Storage APIs to further enable customers to leverage full power of Snowflake
• Solve real, pressing business needs at scale by applying your software engineering skills, as well as analytical problem solving and collaboration skills
• Collaborate closely with Product managers, Architects, and other engineering teams to design and build new technologies that will go directly into our customers' hands, empowering them to manage their Snowflake storage footprint much easier than ever before
• Participate in on-call rotation and shape the strategy for continuing to keep the on-call load low, while enabling 10x growth

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL:

• Have 5+ years relevant industry experience working on distributed persistent systems, or equivalent
• Have fluent, high quality coding skills, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Be aligned with the Snowflake values
• Have experience in systems programming including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java (or other similar procedural object-oriented language) is preferred
• Have experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) as a plus.
• Have experience managing and operating publicly available storage systems

Snowflake is continuing to grow quickly and we are scaling our teams to help enable and accelerate growth of Snowflake and your career. 

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