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.
Imagine you are part of a team of talented software engineers to shape the future of Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud. We’re looking for talented and driven software engineers that are passionate about pushing the boundaries of speed and scale. We keep a high bar in engineering as we want to release new versions of Snowflake at fast cadence to all our customers across the globe.
If this resonates with you, read on and apply!
Our mission is to provide low-latency and highly consistent access to Snowflake’s metadata in a secure way. We keep data safe through geo replication and offer immutable snapshots over long periods of time. Most prominently, we build high-scale APIs that power different types of workload from analytics warehouse and Unistore up to AI and container functions. Almost any internal service interfaces with Metadata APIs. Therefore, our services run at a large scale, supporting trillions of requests per day. Additionally, we own the representation of Metadata to users through the means of Infoschema, SHOW commands and Snowflake APIs.
Link to article about Metadata team
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER - METADATA, YOU WILL:Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Design, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system including a decentralized caching system of terabytes of metadata.
Design and implement core infrastructure features including APIs, DDL transactions and logs as well as advanced features built on top of the metadata, such as cloning, time travel and snapshots.
Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.
We are looking for strong system engineers who are interested in solving some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems, performance and scalability, and passionate about building system software with high quality.
OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:2+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Systems programming skills including concurrency, consistency, caching, etc. Fluency in Java (or other similar procedural object-oriented language) is preferred.
Broad experience with identifying and implementing creative solutions to real customer problems.
Knowledge of database internals is a big plus.
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.
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?
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
- 2+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- Systems programming skills including concurrency, consistency, and caching
- Experience designing and supporting highly-parallel, fault-tolerant database systems and decentralized caching of metadata
- Fluency in Java or a similar object-oriented language
- Knowledge of database internals
- BS in Computer Science
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science
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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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants (RSUs) and an ESPP are central to total compensation and are described as highly valuable. Feedback suggests many see equity as a major satisfaction driver with meaningful upside potential.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive and accompanied by clear communication on salary, equity, and advancement. Feedback suggests pay practices emphasize fairness and transparency.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, adoption assistance, and family planning resources are notably comprehensive. Feedback suggests these programs materially support major life events.
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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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