[Remote] Principal Software Engineer I - Metadata

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and they are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join their Metadata team. This role involves designing and developing scalable distributed systems, mentoring junior engineers, and ensuring operational readiness of services to meet customer commitments.

Responsibilities

• Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
• Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for our Snowgrid and Data Sharing teams
• Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them
• Mentor and grow junior engineers
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability and performance

Skills

• 15+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services
• Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
• Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems
• Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations
• BS in Computer Science
• Fluency in Java or other similar procedural object-oriented language is preferred
• Masters or PhD Preferred

Benefits

• 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
• Other company benefits

Company Overview

• Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.snowflake.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Snowflake has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 324 in 2025, 285 in 2024, 156 in 2023, 183 in 2022, 113 in 2021, 98 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.