We are the Global Services team. We own and operate the Cloud Services layer of our infrastructure. We are responsible for the health and performance of our VMs. This role is responsible for making improvements to the performance of our Java applications. The work will involve debugging real production issues, implementing performance improvements, and automating the diagnosis of system level issues.

We're at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world's greatest data and applications platform. Our 'get it done' culture allows everyone at Snowflake to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration.

Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it. In our effort to enable our Data Cloud vision, we are actively hiring talented distributed systems engineers. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, large scale, high-performance computing environment.

• Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Experience in designing, running, and analyzing performance experiments and benchmarks.
• Familiarity with Linux and its diagnostics.
• Familiarity with the JVM and its inner workings.
• A track record of working on large-scale systems and addressing complex performance issues.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.

• 8+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.
• Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including. multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.

• Build an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.
• Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
• Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.
• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $327,750.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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.

How do you want to make your impact?