Principal Software Engineer for the Drivers team

Join our dynamic Snowflake Drivers team as a Principal Software Engineer, where innovation meets expertise! This pivotal role places you at the heart of our seasoned engineering squad, crafting cutting-edge in-house drivers, including JDBC, ODBC, Node.js, Go, PHP, and .NET. 

Specifically, we’re on the lookout for Java or, C++ virtuosos eager to enhance our customers’ Snowflake experience with seamless integration and usability. 

If you’re a quick-learning, tech-savvy engineer with a passion for developing groundbreaking technologies, then we'll get along great! Your journey towards reshaping the digital landscape starts here. Bring your passion for delighting customers and deep experience building cutting edge apps and help us build the future of the Data Cloud. 

AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

• Lead and drive projects that span our stack.
• Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design and product management.
• Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams such as  Client Backend, Stored Procedures, SQL, Storage, Cloud Services, Connectors,  Security, Support. 
• Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
• Mentor and coach team members.
• Build for scale, safe and high performance solution.

OUR IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 18+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems.
• Experience with high performance and scalable software in an internet scale distributed cloud environment. 
• Fluency in  Java or C++.
• Experience with RDBMS and fluent knowledge of SQL language.
• Systems design and programming skills including high-throughput, multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
• Great communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• Ability to work in a hybrid work model in our Berlin office. 

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• Knowledge of the internals of database system technologies and implementation.
• Experience or knowledge in designing and building customer-facing distributed web services and APIs (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL, messaging).
• Experience in C#, Node.js, Go.