Software Engineer - Backend

Responsibilities

• Design and build features, and/or distributed platforms at scale
• Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions
• Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards

Preferred

• Familiarity with database internals or data governance, and/or payment systems is a plus

Benefits

• HYBRID work model
• Glassdoor
• 3.7
• Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.
• San Mateo, California, USA
• https://www.snowflake.com
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Qualifications

• 2-7 years' of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production
• Strong fundamental computer science skills. Knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Fluency in Java, Python, C++, or SQL
• Deep multi-faceted appreciation in building end-to-end customer facing products
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with database internals or data governance, and/or payment systems is a plus
• 2-7 years’ of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.

Required skills

• Algorithms, C++, Data governance, Data structures, Database internals, Java, Large-scale systems design, Payment systems, Python, SQL

Experience

• 2-7 years