Snowflake

Snowflake

Principal Software Engineer - Elastic Global Services

US-CA-Menlo Park · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago
Distributed SystemsSnowflakeAWSAzureKubernetesSystems EngineeringProblem Solving

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Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds40
Fits your clock70

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Green-card filing pattern in this occupation

Context, not a finding about this posting: of this employer's 52 green-card filings in this occupation, 100% were for a worker who already held the job.

Green-card follow-through: 74%

Of 57 labor certifications old enough to have been used, 15 expired without the employer filing the next step. Median time from filing to decision: 502 days.100% of their filings were for a worker who already held the job.Only certifications past the 180-day window are counted — recent ones cannot have expired yet.

Files H-1B transfers

123 transfer filings in the last year, covering 968 workers. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

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About the role

  • To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.
  • You don't just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
  • At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Skills

  • Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
  • Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
  • Mentor and grow junior engineers.
  • Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant infrastructure.
  • Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
  • Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.
  • Build an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.

Compensation

  • 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 http://careers.snowflake.com

Company info

  • At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
  • We are looking at expanding our team to handle the next big challenges for Snowflake customers.
  • In our effort to enable our Data Cloud vision, we are actively hiring talented distributed systems engineers.
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