Principal Engineer - Metadata
SnowflakeBellevue, Washington, United States • California, United States
Posted October 6, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Snowflake is a leading provider of the AI Data Cloud, offering scalable, secure, and seamless data management solutions across various cloud environments. The company's platform supports data warehousing, lakes, engineering, science, applications, and sharing, enabling organizations to mobilize and analyze their data effectively. Snowflake's unique approach ensures high performance and scalability, making it a distinctive player in the data analytics industry.
Job Description
Snowflake is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, develop, and support scalable distributed systems for their metadata and analytics platforms. This role involves solving complex technical problems, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring the reliability and performance of Snowflake’s services. The team focuses on unlocking new capabilities for Snowflake, leveraging Iceberg and other technologies.
Requirements
- 15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services
- Deep expertise in a variety of database systems internals including metadata management, clustering, compaction, catalogs, storage and replication
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- Excellent understanding of systems infrastructure product development and concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance, reliability and scalability
- Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred
Benefits
- Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform
- Solve challenging technical problems
