At Snowflake, we handle tremendous amounts of data (~ 5 billion queries* a day to be exact) in a fast, secure, and reliable way across major cloud providers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. The OS Engineering team is responsible for building a key component that makes it all possible - Snowflake's operating system and core container images. These are tailored to Snowflake's unique needs regarding scale, performance, memory, networking, compliance, and security. It powers a global data mesh, running on hundreds of thousands of Virtual Machines, spanning more than 30 regions, and enabling our customers to run billions of jobs per day all over the world.

We call this operating system SnowflakeOS and our team based in Warsaw is responsible for the end-to-end experience. We work on new feature developments, automation of security patching, testing, benchmarking, and developing surrounding tooling. We collaborate with other teams at Snowflake on reliable releases across all services, in all regions and with all cloud providers. With such high customer expectations around reliability, we take pride in ensuring there are no performance or functional regressions while rolling out complex changes like Linux Kernel upgrades. At our scale, even small improvements in performance or efficiency can generate significant impact at the company level.

The team is fully located in Poland and frequently gathers in our beautiful Warsaw office, where they can find a quiet place to focus and code, eat a free lunch, or enjoy a snack or two. The Warsaw office is also home to a rapidly growing, diverse group of engineers working on various parts of the Snowflake product and infrastructure - say hi to some of our team members pictured below:

Interested in working on challenging and impactful projects spanning multiple areas of software engineering? Do you value a collaborative engineering culture and want to work with the best engineers in Poland? We're on a mission to mobilize the world's data and we're looking for passionate people to take us there.

Click here to apply for a role on our OS Engineering team and learn more about what it's like to work at Snowflake.

*Average daily queries from April 1, 2024 to April 30, 2024.