Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations

The role

You will lead a ground-up redesign of core metadata and storage architecture. You will build highly concurrent transaction frameworks and drive innovations on Apache Iceberg to support agentic AI.

What you will do

• Lead the ground-up re-architecture of core metadata systems
• Build highly concurrent transaction frameworks for query, DML, and AI-driven data interactions
• Drive innovations on Apache Iceberg
• Build rich metadata structures to provide AI agents with semantic understanding and governance
• Solve challenges in fault tolerance, high availability, and extreme performance
• Own the end-to-end platform architecture
• Set and shape the future roadmap for how metadata interfaces with AI
• Mentor the next generation of engineers

Required qualifications

• 15+ Years Systems Experience
• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Experience solving multi-cloud interoperability challenges
• Deep expertise in building database, metadata management, query optimization, data catalog, compaction, or large-scale state management systems
• History of implementing greenfield, cloud-scale solutions
• History of migrating massive, high-throughput distributed systems to next-generation architectures
• Strong grasp of storage performance, distributed consistency trade-offs, and algorithms

About the company

Snowflake is a cloud data warehouse transitioning to the Interoperable Data + AI Cloud. The company is scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.