Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.The Service runtime team's mission is to deliver a modern, distributed, cloud-native service fabric that ensures Snowflake can scale infinitely to meet rapidly growing customer demand across multiple cloud providers.Today the service platform manages the lifecycle for thousands of VMs and millions of customer jobs globally. It delivers a rich set of monitoring, diagnostic, and configuration management services to ensure the system runs efficiently.This is just the beginning. We need to continue innovating and designing for the future. We are seeking talented Principal Distributed Systems Engineers to lead strategic initiatives to support new workloads being built for the Snowflake Data Cloud while ensuring scalability, efficiency, and availability continues to exceed our customer demand.You'll work with some of the brightest engineers in the industry to deliver impactful results. To be successful, you'll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers. You possess excellent communication, collaboration and diplomacy skills. You have many years of experience developing, deploying and operating large scale systems.AS A PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:Lead significant engineering efforts in the Service team and beyondLead improvements to scalability, reliability, service health, supportability, observability and manageability of the productAs a domain expert, understand the state of the art, the design of competitive products, and be familiar with research in the area of distributed servicesDevelop and lead new ideas and innovationsMake contributions at the company-wide level with longer-term objectives, usually 1-3 years in duration.Be a key decision-maker on technical or business issues, which significantly impacts roles and responsibilities of othersRegularly explore uncharted territory. Be aware of business trends and emerging technologies even outside the current business and determine how they can be leveraged to the advantage of SnowflakeOUR IDEAL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEER WILL HAVE:12+ years hands-on software engineering experience6+ years of experience building large scale distributed, fault-tolerant servicesStrong experience with database fundamentals including working with relational data, semi-structured data, and unstructured dataStrong systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, caching, batching, etc.Fluency in Java and C++ requiredStrong experience with service-oriented architecturesTrack record of identifying and implementing creative solutionsExperience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure, and Google CloudMasters or PhD in Computer Science or a related fieldThe following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:The estimated base salary range for this role is $232,000 - $362,200.Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.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.How do you want to make your impact?Snowflake is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will