Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team. 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. AS A FORWARD DEPLOYED SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

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 cluster that power the Snowflake platform in sensitive (sometimes air-gapped) production environments

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

Script to automate away routine operational tasks

OUR IDEAL FORWARD DEPLOYED SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

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 storage systems, cloud infrastructure and IaC tools such as Terraform or Pulumi etc.

Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems

In-depth development skills in Java, C++, Golang or Python

Experience with database systems and database internals

Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

Advanced degree in Computer Science or related degree

Requirements:

Active TS/SCI Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.