Staff Software Engineer, Snowpark Container Service
Recruiter Fit Breakdown & Candid Summary
Snowflake is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Snowpark Container Services team and drive the technical direction of a high-scale, cloud-native compute platform.
The ideal candidate brings 10+ years of distributed systems experience, strong fundamental computer science skills, and hands-on coding expertise in Java, C++, or Go.
This role involves technical leadership, architecture design, Kubernetes-based development, and cross-functional collaboration in a hybrid work environment.
Candidates who prefer strictly isolated individual contributor tasks or lack large-scale systems experience should not apply.
Role Responsibilities
- 1Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
- 2Lead a team of engineers, including mentoring and guiding them, and build technical direction and strategy for large and critical parts of the product surf
- 3Manage all aspects of the Project, including Design, Coding, Reviews, Testing, Observability, Tooling and On-Call support.
- 4Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
- 5Ensure operational readiness and maintainability of the service with heavy focus on reliability, availability, debuggability and performance.
- 6Design and build Kubernetes based OCI compliant container compute platform features and capabilities that scale and evolve with changing business and custo
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