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.
We’re hiring talented Software Engineers for the Snowflake Dynamic Tables team in Berlin, Germany. Join us to build the next generation data platform that enables customers to transform data with declarative SQL while maintaining control over cost, latency, and throughput. We are looking for strong engineers who are enthusiastic about building new cutting-edge technologies, who look forward to tackling complex database problems, and pick up and understand deep technical areas quickly. You will work alongside seasoned engineers and grow in your scope and influence.
As a software engineer at snowflake you will
- Work with a talented and collaborative team of engineers and Product Managers in our globally distributed team to design and build Dynamic Tables capabilities
- Design, implement, support, and evolve new features and performance improvements
- Help shape technical and product direction with senior teammates
- Break ambiguous problems down, weigh the tradeoffs, and make technical and product decisions
- Analyze and solve performance, correctness, and fault-tolerance challenges at scale
- Dig into unfamiliar parts of a large system to root cause and solve problems
- Ensure operational readiness of what you build and help meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability, and performance
- Understand how customers use Dynamic Tables to shape what you build
Our ideal software engineer will have
- 2+ years of industry experience designing and building database internals or data-intensive systems, or equivalent research experience
- Excellent problem-solving skills and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- A track record of taking a problem from open question to software running in production
- Proficiency with AI-native software engineering and agentic development workflows
- Preference for working in a collaborative team with opportunities to both mentor and learn
- BS in Computer Science or related field
- Strong English communication skills
Bonus points for experience with the following
- Query compilers, optimizers, or database internals
- Building enterprise-grade, reliable and trustworthy software or services
- Large scale distribu