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Snowflake

Software Engineer

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Build and operate backend control plane services for Snowflake's managed Postgres offering, focusing on provisioning, user models, authorization, reliability, and security at the intersection of distributed systems and database infrastructure. Requires 2+ years backend/distributed systems experience and strong CS fundamentals.

160k – 230k/yr
On-site2+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA +1

Staff Software Engineer building and scaling Snowflake's cloud-agnostic FDB distributed transactional key-value store that powers all Snowflake products. Design autoscaling infrastructure, next-gen transaction/caching/storage systems, and multi-tenant capabilities for AWS, Azure, and GCP.

236k – 339k/yr
On-site8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer

SnowflakeBellevue, WA

Build and operate Snowflake's core Streaming Platform (Snowpipe Streaming and Datastream) for real-time, high-scale data ingestion powering enterprise AI. Requires 5+ years building large-scale distributed systems with strong Java or C++ skills.

200k – 288k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Senior Software Engineer building and scaling Snowflake's distributed cloud control plane and next-gen Data Cloud services. Requires 6+ years experience, strong Java and distributed systems expertise, and a Bachelor's in CS or related field.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site6+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Design and implement query optimization and distributed data processing algorithms for Snowflake's petabyte-scale cloud database. Own end-to-end delivery of large-scale systems projects and mentor junior engineers.

236k – 339k/yr
Hybrid10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer - Data Clean Room/ AI Data Hub

SnowflakeBellevue, WA

Senior engineer building scalable infrastructure and AI-enabled features for Snowflake's secure multi-party data collaboration platform.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform for User Experiences

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Senior engineer building scalable backend services, Kubernetes infrastructure, and AI-powered developer tooling for Snowflake's user-facing applications and internal AI coding agent.

200k – 288k/yr
Hybrid6+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer - Parameters

SnowflakeBellevue, WA

Lead development of Snowflake's feature flagging and experimentation platform. Build scalable frameworks, APIs, and infrastructure used across engineering teams to enable safe, performant feature releases.

236k – 339k/yr
On-site8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, OpenTelemetry

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Develops OpenTelemetry Collector components, SDK libraries, and instrumentation for emerging domains like LLM/AI and Browser RUM. Collaborates with open-source community on contributions, RFCs, and standards while owning Observe Agent architecture. Requires 5+ years experience with strong Go skills and OTel ecosystem knowledge.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, Streaming Data Products

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Owns streaming data products including APIs, schemas, and abstractions for tables/views unifying telemetry at petabyte scale. Requires 7+ years experience in databases/stream processing, Go proficiency, and architectural expertise in data systems.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, Logs

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Leads backend architecture for Observe's Logs product, owning ingestion, storage, querying of massive telemetry data, and API design for human and AI agent use. Requires 7+ years in high-scale systems with Go/Java proficiency and cross-functional collaboration.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer — Dynamic Tables, Performance

SnowflakeBellevue, WA

Leads design and implementation of performance improvements for Snowflake's Dynamic Tables incremental view maintenance engine, focusing on complex query shapes, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Requires 10+ years in large-scale data systems with expertise in query optimization or stream processing, plus C++/Java proficiency.

236k – 339k/yr
Hybrid10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer - APM & AI Observability

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Builds and owns backend services, APIs, and streaming data pipelines for APM and AI observability products at scale. Requires 5+ years backend experience, strong distributed systems knowledge, and product mindset for cross-functional collaboration.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer, Monitoring & Alerting

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Builds and scales backend systems for monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection in an AI-powered observability platform. Requires 5+ years backend experience with high-concurrency SQL, distributed architectures, and end-to-end feature ownership.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Staff Softare Engineer, Cortex AI Infrastructure

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Builds scalable backend infrastructure for Snowflake's Cortex AI products, including agentic runtimes, RAG systems, evals engines, and productionized AI workflows. Requires 5+ years in distributed systems and proficiency in Go/Java/Python.

236k – 339k/yr
On-site5+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Senior SWE, AI Backend: Observe by Snowflake

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Builds backend systems powering Observe's AI observability platform, including context resolution APIs and real-time pipelines. Requires 7+ years backend experience, fluency in Go/TypeScript/Python, and familiarity with LLM quality measurement.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Sr. Integrations Developer, Workday HCM

SnowflakeDublin, CA +1

Designs, builds, and maintains Workday HCM integrations with third-party systems and Snowflake's platform for seamless people data flow. Requires 8+ years of Workday integration experience with tools like Studio, EIB, APIs, and proficiency in XML/JSON.

156k – 205k/yr
Hybrid8+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Principal Software Engineer I - Metadata

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Designs and builds fault-tolerant, scalable distributed systems for Snowflake's metadata, Snowgrid, and data sharing features. Requires 15+ years experience, strong CS fundamentals, Java fluency, and ability to mentor juniors while solving performance and scale challenges.

264k – 380k/yr
On-site15+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Principal Software Engineer - Snowflake Intelligence

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Leads technical vision and architecture for Snowflake Intelligence, tackling agentic reasoning, NL-to-SQL, and enterprise RAG. Requires 10+ years software engineering with 3+ years LLM deployment at scale, deep AI expertise, and principal-level impact.

264k – 380k/yr
On-site10+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Principal Software Engineer I - Snowhouse Foundation

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Leads design and implementation of highly available distributed platforms and pipelines for Snowflake's petabyte-scale data warehouse. Requires 15+ years in distributed systems and data infrastructure, with cloud expertise in AWS, Azure, GCP.

264k – 380k/yr
On-site15+ YOEBackend Engineering
Snowflake

Software Engineer - Backend

SnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Build backend services and distributed platforms at scale for Snowflake's Data Cloud, enabling secure data sharing. Requires 2-5 years experience, strong CS fundamentals, and fluency in Java, Python, C++, or SQL.

157k – 230k/yr
On-site2+ YOEBackend Engineering