Snowflake
Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, Metrics Platform(m/w/x)
Full-timeOn-siteSenior
Zürich
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Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, Indexing and Query Execution(m/w/x)
Zürich
Full-timeOn-siteSenior
AI/ML
Nejo AI Summary
Evolving query execution service for AI-native observability platform. 5+ years distributed systems experience required. On-call rotation, 4-week workation option.
Requirements
- 5+ years industry experience building distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with query interface execution machinery
- Proven ability to diagnose/resolve database performance issues
- Strong understanding of algorithms, distributed systems architecture, backend infrastructure
- Ability to rapidly onboard to complex systems
- Customer-focused mindset, translate user problems to technical causes
- Strong communication skills with stakeholders
- Experience with Snowflake or cloud data warehouses
- Prior work on observability, monitoring, or telemetry platforms
- Experience with OLAP query optimization, columnar storage, vectorized execution
- Advanced degree in Computer Science (databases/systems focus)
Tasks
- Own and evolve query execution service
- Implement query caching strategies
- Optimize incremental execution
- Rewrite queries for performance
- Decompose complex queries
- Analyze large query volumes
- Identify performance bottlenecks
- Drive performance improvements
- Investigate customer query latency issues
- Resolve query latency during new deals
- Automate system parameter tuning
- Reduce query execution times
- Lower query execution costs
- Partner with engineering teams
- Advocate for platform improvements
- Communicate requirements clearly
- Propose query execution improvements
- Scope and deliver performance fixes
- Focus on long-term architecture
Work Experience
- 5 years
Education
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Snowflake
- cloud data warehouses
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SNSnowflake
Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, Indexing and Query Execution(m/w/x)
Zürich
Full-timeOn-siteSenior
AI/ML
Nejo AI Summary
Evolving query execution service for AI-native observability platform. 5+ years distributed systems experience required. On-call rotation, 4-week workation option.
Requirements
- 5+ years industry experience building distributed systems
- Hands-on experience with query interface execution machinery
- Proven ability to diagnose/resolve database performance issues
- Strong understanding of algorithms, distributed systems architecture, backend infrastructure
- Ability to rapidly onboard to complex systems
- Customer-focused mindset, translate user problems to technical causes
- Strong communication skills with stakeholders
- Experience with Snowflake or cloud data warehouses
- Prior work on observability, monitoring, or telemetry platforms
- Experience with OLAP query optimization, columnar storage, vectorized execution
- Advanced degree in Computer Science (databases/systems focus)
Tasks
- Own and evolve query execution service
- Implement query caching strategies
- Optimize incremental execution
- Rewrite queries for performance
- Decompose complex queries
- Analyze large query volumes
- Identify performance bottlenecks
- Drive performance improvements
- Investigate customer query latency issues
- Resolve query latency during new deals
- Automate system parameter tuning
- Reduce query execution times
- Lower query execution costs
- Partner with engineering teams
- Advocate for platform improvements
- Communicate requirements clearly
- Propose query execution improvements
- Scope and deliver performance fixes
- Focus on long-term architecture
Work Experience
- 5 years
Education
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Snowflake
- cloud data warehouses
Find the original job posting in its most current version here. Nejo automatically captured this job from the website of Snowflake and processed the information on Nejo with the help of AI for you. Despite careful analysis, some information may be incomplete or inaccurate. Please always verify all details in the original posting! Content and copyrights of the original posting belong to the advertising company.
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About the Company
Snowflake
Industry
IT
Description
The company develops a cloud data platform that combines data warehousing, big data flexibility, and cloud elasticity.
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