At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. 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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
We’re hiring talented Senior Software Engineers for the Snowflake Dynamic Tables team in Berlin, Germany. Join us to build the next generation data platform that enables customers to transform data with declarative SQL while maintaining control over cost, latency, and throughput. We are looking for strong engineers who are enthusiastic about building new cutting-edge technologies, who look forward to tackling complex database problems and pick up and understand deep technical areas quickly.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:Work with a talented and collaborative team of engineers and Product Managers in our globally distributed team to define the capabilities and technical designs for Dynamic Tables
Interact with customers to understand their needs, and synthesize those into product and technical roadmaps
Have responsibility and authority for driving new capabilities and performance improvements from inception to landing
Build highly reliable and performant software that holds up under the reliability and scale demands of the largest enterprise customers
Analyze and solve performance, correctness, and fault-tolerance challenges at scale
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance
5+ years of industry experience designing and building distributed data systems
3+ years of experience with internals of query compilers
Experience building enterprise-grade, reliable and trustworthy software or services
Degree in Computer Science or related field
Excellent problem-solving skills and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, relational algebra or SQL
Adaptive and collaborative – would rather play in a band than be a soloist, and looks for opportunities to both mentor and learn
Strong English communication skills
Direct interactions with enterprise customers
Incremental view maintenance / materialized views
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?
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
Skills Required
- 5+ years of industry experience designing and building distributed data systems
- 3+ years of experience with query compiler internals
- Experience building enterprise-grade, reliable, and trustworthy software or services
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, relational algebra, or SQL
- Adaptive and collaborative working style
- Strong English communication skills
- Direct interactions with enterprise customers
- Experience with incremental view maintenance or materialized views
Snowflake Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is often characterized as top‑of‑market across multiple roles. The company also points to a Fair Pay Workplace certification, signaling externally reviewed pay‑equity practices.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is a meaningful part of total compensation, with new‑hire grants, refresh potential, and a discounted ESPP with a favorable lookback. Feedback suggests this ownership component materially boosts perceived total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Parental leave is described as up to 26 weeks paid in the U.S., paired with flexible or generous PTO and multiple leave types. Family‑building benefits and a dedicated parental‑leave hub further expand support.
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What We Do
Snowflake powers the end-to-end data lifecycle – from ingesting and processing data to analyzing and modeling it, to building and sharing data and AI applications – helping engineers, analysts, and leaders innovate faster and achieve more with their data. We're on a mission to empower every enterprise to achieve its full potential through data and AI.
Why Work With Us
Snowflake is where data does more, and so do you. More innovating, more growing, and more collaborating. Here, you’ll find the sweet spot between building big and moving fast, in technology and your career.
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