# Senior Software Engineer - Openflow

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Java, Apache Nifi, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kafka, Scala, Go
**Posted:** 2026-01-15

> Senior Software Engineer building Openflow's data integration platform for real-time bi-directional data movement using Apache NiFi. Requires 7+ years experience with distributed systems, Java proficiency, and cloud-native services.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement features in Openflow’s control plane and data plane for reliable, scalable services.
- Build distributed systems for high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines handling structured and unstructured data.
- Own medium-sized projects end-to-end, from design to rollout and improvements.
- Take operational ownership including monitoring, on-call, and incident response.
- Apply engineering best practices: clean code, testing, observability, security, documentation.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams.
- Analyze and improve performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to platform tooling.

## Requirements
- 7+ years building and operating backend/platform services with distributed systems.
- Strong CS fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, systems design.
- Experience with distributed systems concepts: concurrency, replication, partitioning, streaming, fault tolerance.
- Understanding of OS and networking basics.
- Proficiency in Java or similar (Scala, Go, C++).
- Cloud-native services experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) with containers, CI/CD, monitoring.
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with data integration, observability, streaming (Apache NiFi, Kafka, Flink, Airflow) or analytics platforms.

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