Staff Software Engineer - Applied Performance Group

Snowflake is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Applied Performance Group (APG) Engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong SQL skills, data warehousing, data architecture, data engineering, transaction processing, security, performance analysis, analytics, and excellent communication skills. The person will work collaboratively with a broad range of people both inside and outside the company to deliver results and guidance on performance gaps, challenges, advantages, and disadvantages.

Requirements

• Be an expert on the topics of Snowflake architecture, query processing, workload profiling, data engineering, and Snowflake tools
• Be an expert in competitor solutions/products for analytics and data engineering
• Define, automate, execute, and publish competitive benchmarks
• Partner closely with other engineering teams to deliver both results and guidance on performance gaps, challenges, advantages, and disadvantages
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and eco-system roadmaps