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.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER YOU WILL:Drive high-impact initiatives that span our product areas and full tech stack, including golang and Python on the backend and TypeScript/React on the frontend.
Own and deliver features across the notebook service, container runtimes, and UI — designing and shipping medium-to-large projects independently, from ambiguous problem statements through production and post-launch.
Advance core platform initiatives such as runtime management and patching, environment reproducibility and replication, security and compliance, and observability for notebooks.
Extend the product to operate reliably in regulated and air-gapped environments, where security, compliance, and operational rigor are paramount.
Promote strong collaboration within a cross-functional team and partner closely with embedded product managers and designers, as well as platform organizations across Snowflake
Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
Build for scale, reliability, and high performance, and participate in the on-call rotation to keep a Tier-1 production service healthy.
Mentor, coach, and empower more junior team members, and raise the engineering bar through high-quality design and code review.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:7+ years of hands-on software development experience, including significant experience in full-stack software development.
Deep understanding of modern web application architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance, and scale.
Experience with backend services and distributed systems; familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure is a strong plus.
Experience building for regulated, compliance-driven, or air-gapped environments is a strong plus.
Knowledge of database internals and SQL is a plus.
Passionate about building the best customer-facing products.
Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills, with a proactive, transparent working style.
BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors.
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.
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
- 7+ years of hands-on software development experience, including significant full-stack development
- Experience with backend services and distributed systems
- Deep understanding of modern web application architecture, API design, security, performance, and scale
- Proficiency with Golang and Python (backend) and TypeScript/React (frontend)
- Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure
- Experience building for regulated, compliance-driven, or air-gapped environments
- Knowledge of database internals and SQL
- Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills with a proactive, transparent working style
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related major
Snowflake Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Snowflake and has not been reviewed or approved by Snowflake.
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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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