Senior Software Engineer - Streaming Data Platform

Snowflake

Berlin, Germany

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Position summary

functionality and design of our next generation streaming data platform.

  • Be responsible for driving new feature development from inception, design, testing to the eventual release to address customer requirements and meet business goals.
  • Build highly reliable software to meet and exceed the needs of our largest customers.
  • Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

  • 7+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
  • Experience building enterprise grade, reliable and trustworthy software or services.
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field.
  • Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
  • Fluency in Java or C++.
  • Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
  • Strong oral and written English language skills

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

  • Building/enhancing stream processing systems: Flink, Beam, Spark Streaming, etc.

  • Analytic database technologies, especially internal design and implementation

  • Developing database or distributed systems internals

  • Large scale distributed systems, transactions and consistency models.

  • Implementing multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security.

  • Designing and implementing systems for public or private clouds.

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.

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