Forward Deployment Software Engineer

Snowflake•Reston, VA

10h

About The Position

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. Running Snowflake in public sectors in different countries and regions, even in different industry verticals, requires us to build a compliant, secure, and auditable infrastructure. Many key design decisions are deeply rooted in the Snowflake product architecture. As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading several key areas and collaborating with various engineering groups in addition to the Public Sector team. To be successful in the area, you will need to have (and continue to build) a broad and in-depth knowledge base on cloud infrastructure, privacy, and governance, compliance controls, data security and data residency in various aspects of Snowflake.

Requirements

7+ years of industry experience designing and supporting large-scale distributed systems in production, with recent experience in deploying at public sector customers
In-depth experience with container orchestration, cloud infrastructure and IaC tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
In-depth development skills in Java, C++, Golang or Python
Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Security Clearance
Required: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
Condition: Must be willing and able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Verification: Proof of clearance is required prior to an offer of employment.
U.S. Citizenship: Required due to federal law and government contract restrictions; verification via valid passport or approved documentation is mandatory.
Compliance: Candidates must meet all applicable customer and government security screening requirements.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer

Nice To Haves

Experience with database systems and database internals preferred
Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field

Responsibilities

Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Design, implement and maintain scalable distributed systems for our cloud automation platform that include cloud control plane, Kubernetes container platform and traffic and networking.
Work directly with customers to quickly understand their critical problems and design and implement solutions.
Deploy and maintain availability of cloud compute servers and Kubernetes clusters that power the Snowflake platform in sensitive (sometimes air-gapped) production environments using automation.
Implement software delivery pipelines that support continuous delivery and automatic compliance in sensitive runtime environments.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance.
Collaborate closely with product teams on requirements & SLOs for deploying software into air-gapped environments.
Identify, troubleshoot, and solve network & systems issues.
Use AI-driven tooling to automate operational tasks.