Job Overview
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Snowflake is a high-growth, cloud-native data platform company committed to empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential. With a culture built on impact, innovation, and collaboration, we offer an environment where you can build large-scale systems, move fast, and take your technology career to the next level.
We are seeking a highly talented and experienced Software Engineer to join our Database Engineering team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our core product: an elastic, large-scale, high-performance data processing system. We are looking for smart, enthusiastic engineers who can quickly master complex technical areas and are passionate about building new, industry-leading technologies.
As a senior software engineer at snowflake, you will
- Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms to maintain Snowflake's industry-leading data warehousing capabilities.
- Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system, ensuring it is highly parallel and fault-tolerant.
- Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud.
- Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system.
- Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout.
- Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting our customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance.
- Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies.
- Develop tools to provide customers with greater insight into their workloads.
- Evangelize best practices for database usage and end-to-end system architecture.
- Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers on the team.
Our ideal senior software engineer will have
- 6+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
- Strong fluency in C/C++ and/or Java
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and dis