Staff Software Engineer - FDB Platform

The role

You will design and implement scalable distributed system solutions for a cloud agnostic platform. You will work on the FDB platform, a large scale distributed transactional Key-Value store.

What you will do

• Design and implement scalable distributed system solutions for our cloud agnostic platform.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, test and safe production rollout.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
• Build the next generation transaction system, caching, storage engine and multi tenant capabilities.
• Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture.
• Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems infrastructure supporting stateful services.
• Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
• Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
• Fluency in Java.
• Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.
• Track record of delivering highly complex projects in the distributed systems space.
• Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better.
• BS in Computer Science.

Nice to have

• Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.
• Big Data storage technologies and their applications (HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.)
• Scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra, etc.
• Masters or PhD

About the company

Snowflake is a high-growth, cloud-native data platform company. It is a cloud-native data platform company committed to empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential.