Snowflake
Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations
$304K–$437K
US-WA-Bellevue +1 · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- US-WA-Bellevue
US-CA-Menlo Park - Experience
- 15+ years of systems experience.
About the job
Lead a ground-up redesign of Snowflake’s metadata and storage architecture to enable high-performance, governed interoperability across data lakes and AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Architect core metadata systems and highly concurrent transaction frameworks for query, DML, and AI-driven data interactions.
- Drive Apache Iceberg innovations and build metadata that gives AI agents context and governance for global datasets.
- Own platform architecture and roadmap, address resilience and performance challenges, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of systems experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep expertise building database, metadata management, query optimization, data catalog, compaction, or large-scale state management systems.
- Experience implementing greenfield cloud-scale solutions and migrating high-throughput distributed systems to new architectures.
- Strong grasp of storage performance, distributed consistency trade-offs, and algorithms.
Pay
$304K – $437K (base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
Apache Iceberg
AI focus
Build metadata structures and architecture that provide AI agents with semantic context and governance to query, understand, and act on large datasets.
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