Staff Software Engineer - Metadata
Snowflake · US-WA-Bellevue
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## Staff Software Engineer — Metadata ### Company Pitch Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud. Thousands of organizations run their most critical data, analytics, and AI workloads on our platform. Built for the cloud from day one—near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance—our goal is to make every organization’s data instantly useful and always available. ### Team Pitch The Metadata team owns the brain of Snowflake. Every query, table, transaction, and permission depends on the metadata layer we build. Our systems handle millions of metadata operations per second, and we power cross-region and cross-cloud replication and failover to keep customer data available through outages. ### Responsibilities - Lead the design of core metadata and replication systems across multiple teams. - Set technical direction for scalability, consistency, and fault tolerance of the metadata layer. - Drive cross-region and cross-cloud replication toward lower RPO and higher reliability. - Solve hard problems in performance, availability, and correctness at global scale. - Partner with Product and architects to turn customer needs into durable designs. - Raise the operational bar through observability, safe rollouts, and blast-radius controls. - Mentor senior engineers and grow technical leaders on the team. ### Requirements **Core Requirements** - 10+ years building large-scale distributed systems or database internals. - Strong development skills in Java or C++. - Proven record leading multi-team technical initiatives from design to production. - Deep understanding of consistency, transactions, and fault tolerance. - BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience. **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience with FoundationDB or other distributed key-value stores. - Experience building replication, disaster recovery, or geo-distributed systems. - Experience with database metadata, catalogs, or query compilation. - Experience running services on AWS, Azure, or GCP. ### Location / Compensation Note (US) For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: **careers.snowflake.com**
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