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To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset - who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.\nThere is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake's founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn't stop there. 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This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the vision, architecture and approach for the core services that the rest of Snowflake operates on.\nAs a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at Snowflake you will:\nSolve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.\n\nDesign and implement scalable distributed systems for our services layer.\n\nAnalyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.\n\nLead cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams.\n\nUnderstand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.\n\nEnsure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.\n\nOur ideal Distributed Systems Engineer will have:\n7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.\n\n2+ years experience in leading a group of junior and senior engineers.\n\nExperience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring.\n\nExcellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.\n\nStrong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.\n\nSystems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java preferred.\n\nTrack record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.\n\nExperience with cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.\n\nBS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD preferred.\n\nWhy join the Engineering team at Snowflake?\nBuild an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.\n\nSolve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!\n\nWork 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.\n\nLearn about and contribute to:\nSuper-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries daily.\n\nHighly-scalable and reliable cloud platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.\n\nOptimizing performance and resource management in Java systems.\n\nJoin a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.\n\nSnowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. 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