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About Dynamic Tables
Dynamic Tables (DTs) are Snowflake's declarative streaming transformation primitive. Customers define a SQL query and a freshness target; Snowflake handles the rest: orchestrating refreshes, maintaining snapshot consistency across a DAG of dependencies, and automatically incrementalizing the computation so that cost scales with what changed. Dynamic Tables is one of the fastest growing products at Snowflake and is a core part of Snowflake’s Data Engineering strategy.
The Dynamic Tables performance team is responsible for making incremental refresh fast, predictable, and cost-efficient across increasingly complex query shapes. As a Staff Engineer on this team, you will own the technical direction for critical performance initiatives and be a force multiplier for the engineers around you.
What You'll DoLead the design and implementation of performance improvements to the incremental view maintenance engine, including multi-join incrementalization, novel incrementalization semantics, incremental window functions, and stacked operations.
Help define the roadmap for the incremental view maintenance engine, identifying key performance, scalability, and correctness milestones, prioritizing high-impact enhancements, and aligning technical investments with product and research goals.
Collaborate across teams to co-design improvements that benefit incremental pipelines.
Mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and raise the technical bar for the team through architectural leadership and high-quality code.
Contribute to the research and publication roadmap; the team has an active presence at top-tier database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB).
What We're Looking For10 + years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data systems, with deep expertise in at least one of: query optimization, incremental/stream processing, or materialized view maintenance.
Strong computer science fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems design.
Proficiency in C++ or Java; experience with systems-level performance analysis (profiling, benchmarking, regression detection).
Demonstrated ability to lead multi-engineer, cross-team technical initiatives and translate ambiguous problem spaces into concrete engineering plans.
Experience operating systems at cloud scale (multi-tenant SaaS, petabyte-scale data, thousands of concurrent workloads).
Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to present complex technical trade-offs to both engineering and product audiences.
Nice to HaveExperience with a major analytical DBMS (BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks, Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server).
Familiarity with stream processing algorithms.
Experience with CDC pipelines, data lake architectures (Iceberg, Delta), or the broader data engineering ecosystem (dbt, Airflow, Fivetran).
Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, with emphasis on database systems.
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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.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data systems
- Deep expertise in query optimization or incremental/stream processing
- Proficiency in C++ or Java
- Experience with systems-level performance analysis
- Demonstrated ability to lead multi-engineer cross-team initiatives
- Experience operating systems at cloud scale
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
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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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