# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Java, C++, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, Cloud Infrastructure, Observability, Distributed Tracing
**Posted:** 2026-06-30

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.)

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