# Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations at Snowflake

- Company: Snowflake
- What the company does: Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.snowflake.net/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: US-WA-Bellevue
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $304K to $437K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/d297d07c-eaa7-4896-946d-df2879c8cde3
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snowflake-principal-software-engineer-ii-interoperable-foundations/

## About the role

0->1 Metadata Redesign: Lead the ground-up re-architecture of our core metadata systems. You will build the highly concurrent transaction frameworks that power query, DML, and AI-driven data interactions, ensuring our metadata layer scales to support the massive contextual demands of agentic AI.

## What they're looking for

- 15+ Years Systems Experience: A proven track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems and solving difficult multi-cloud interoperability challenges
- Database Internals Builder: Deep expertise in “building” database, metadata management, query optimization, data catalog, compaction, or large-scale state management systems
- 0->1 Technical Leadership: A history of implementing greenfield, cloud-scale solutions and migrating massive, high-throughput distributed systems to next-generation architectures
- Core Systems Fundamentals: Strong grasp of storage performance, distributed consistency trade-offs, and algorithms
- 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?

Tags: Engineering