Snowflake
Principal Software Engineer - Elastic Global Services
$264K–$380K
US-CA-Menlo Park · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale infrastructure in production.
About the job
Designs and operates scalable, highly available distributed cloud services infrastructure, including compute cluster management and workload orchestration.
What you'll do
- Design and implement scalable distributed systems for cloud services; address fault tolerance, availability, performance, and scale challenges.
- Ensure operational readiness and meet customer availability and performance commitments.
- Mentor and grow junior engineers.
What they ask for
- Experience building large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed infrastructure.
- Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
- Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts, including multithreading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale.
- Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.
Pay
$264K – $379.5K (USD; base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift
AI focus
The posting encourages using AI as a high-trust collaborator and rapidly testing emerging capabilities, but does not specify AI-focused job duties.
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