What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Engineer position at Snowflake Computing?
Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
Running Snowflake in public sectors in different countries and regions, even in different industry verticals, requires us to build a compliant, secure, and auditable infrastructure. Many key design decisions are deeply rooted in the Snowflake product architecture. As a principal engineer, you will be responsible for leading several key areas and collaborating with various engineering groups in addition to the Regulated & Sovereign Cloud team. To be successful as a lead in the area, you will need to have (and continue to build) a broad and in-depth knowledge base on cloud infrastructure, data security, privacy, and governance, and data residency in various aspects of Snowflake.
AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - REGULATED & SOVEREIGN CLOUD AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL :
- Lead highly impactful initiatives from idea formulation to design and implementation.
- Innovate, design and build highly available, reliable and secured distributed services and solutions within the global Snowflake.
- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance.
- Mentor and coach other engineers.
OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - REGULATED & SOVEREIGN CLOUD WILL HAVE :
This position may require access to data that is subject to legal access restrictions. Employment in this role is subject to legal restrictions and is contingent on Snowflake verifying that the candidate may legally access the required data, which may include, but is not limited to, U.S. export-controlled technologies and technical data as well as various forms of government data subject to U.S. federal and state laws and regulations. Time is of the essence to fill this role, and Snowflake may choose not to pursue an export control license or other requirements.
