Staff Software Engineer - Metadata

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$128k–$184k

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Snowflake Staff Software Engineer - Metadata at Snowflake leads design and technical direction for core metadata and replication systems supporting global scale and high availability. The role involves solving distributed systems challenges, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product and architecture teams.

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.

Qualification

Core RequirementsDeep understanding of consistencyExperience building replicationExperience with database metadataExperience running services on AWSSnowflake is growing fast

Required

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.
Any of the following would make you a stronger candidate:
Experience with FoundationDB or other distributed key-value stores.
Experience building replication, disaster recovery, or geo-distributed systems.
Experience with database metadata, catalogs, or query compilation.
Experience running services on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

Preferred

Experience with FoundationDB or other distributed key-value stores
Experience building replication, disaster recovery, or geo-distributed systems
Experience with database metadata, catalogs, or query compilation
Experience running services on AWS, Azure, or GCP

Company

Snowflake

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5001-10000 employees

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Founded 2012

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