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SnowflakeSnowflakeBellevue, WA

Senior Software Engineer

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
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain core components of Snowflake's streaming ingestion platform
  • Improve service reliability, scalability, and latency under high-throughput production workloads
  • Debug and resolve incidents in a distributed, multi-tenant cloud service
  • Contribute to the design and evolution of streaming APIs, SDKs, and server-side protocols
  • Write comprehensive tests including unit, integration, and chaos/fault-injection scenarios
  • Collaborate with partner teams (storage, query, compute) on cross-cutting platform concerns
  • Participate in code reviews, on-call rotations, and architecture discussions

Required Qualifications

  • 3–5 years of software engineering experience on large-scale distributed systems or cloud services
  • Strong proficiency in Java or C++
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, and backpressure
  • Experience building or operating high-throughput, low-latency services in production
  • Strong debugging skills across the stack — from application logic to network and storage layers
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and multi-tenant service design

Nice to Have

  • Experience building streaming or ingestion systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, or similar)
  • Familiarity with database internals — WAL, columnar storage, or transaction processing
  • Experience with observability tooling at scale (distributed tracing, metrics pipelines)
  • Prior work on a cloud-native SaaS platform (Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, etc.)

Skills

JavaC++Distributed SystemsKafkaKinesisFlinkCloud InfrastructureObservabilityDistributed Tracing

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