SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

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Menlo Park, CA, USA
In-Office
221K-288K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Cloud • Machine Learning • Software • Database • Analytics
Let's build a world where data and AI turn possibilities into reality.
The Role
Designs and develops AI/ML observability systems, large-scale data processing infrastructure, storage, data movement, and machine learning platform capabilities. The role supports reliable training, deployment, monitoring, model evaluation, explainability, and Generative AI use cases. Responsibilities include technical leadership, performance optimization, reliability improvements, database and compiler development, enterprise software engineering, Java application development, SQL, testing, debugging, and documentation.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.

Job Location: 135 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025.

ELT: Engineering

REQ ID: ASHREQ-8246

Joining this team means architecting the performance, scalability, and service infrastructure that will empower the world's largest enterprises to seamlessly govern their transactional and analytical data in one place. If you are passionate about building industry-leading technologies that solve real-world scale and performance problems, this is the place to be. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our core product: an elastic, large-scale, high-performance data processing system. We are looking for smart, enthusiastic engineers who can quickly master complex technical areas and are passionate about building new, industry-leading technologies.

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE) AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

Design, develop, and maintain core components of AI/ML observability systems, including backend infrastructure for largescale data processing, storage, and data movement. Implement and optimize highly specialized techniques such as sketch based data aggregation and machine learning metrics to support accurate monitoring and evaluation of ML and Generative AI models. Develop and enhance AI/ML infrastructure to support reliable training, deployment, and monitoring of machine learning workloads at scale. Build and extend platform features that enable scalable ML and Generative AI use cases while improving performance, reliability, and resource efficiency. Serve as a technical lead for the design and implementation of machine learning observability, data infrastructure, and model explainability capabilities supporting customer-facing ML and Generative AI products. Telecommuting permitted.

Minimum Requirements for Position:

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering or a related field, and five (5) years of progressive post baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Education or experience must include:

  • Designing and building database systems, compilers, and developer tools;

  • Building enterprise-grade, reliable, and trustworthy software and services;

  • Developing applications using Java;

  • Using SQL and other database technologies, including implementing internal database components;

  • Designing data warehouses, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions;

  • Contributing to ASF open-source projects, including big data and Hadoop ecosystem initiatives; and

  • Performing implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation, and design query compilation and compiler systems.

The base salary range for this role is $221,187 - $287,500

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

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

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
  • Five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation
  • Experience designing and building database systems, compilers, and developer tools
  • Experience building enterprise-grade, reliable, and trustworthy software and services
  • Experience developing applications using Java
  • Experience using SQL and other database technologies, including implementing internal database components
  • Experience designing data warehouses, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions
  • Experience contributing to Apache Software Foundation open-source projects, including big data and Hadoop ecosystem initiatives
  • Experience with implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, query compilation, and compiler systems

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: Bozeman, MT
9,023 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

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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