Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at a core SaaS lever: growth infrastructure and experimentation. In subscription businesses, durable expansion comes from improving activation, adoption, and ongoing engagement, and that work depends on reliable platforms for measurement and iteration. The listing signals a mature, cloud-native product environment where experimentation is treated as a system to be engineered, not a one-off process.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role builds transferable depth in how product-led growth is operationalised: instrumenting user journeys, working with large datasets, and turning insights into shipped experiences across backend and frontend surfaces. Experience spanning Golang/Python/React/SQL maps well to modern SaaS stacks, while exposure to experimentation infrastructure develops a practical understanding of causality, metrics, and rollout mechanics that many product organisations depend on as they scale.
This position is best suited to engineers who enjoy cross-functional problem framing and are comfortable balancing platform work with user-facing outcomes. It fits professionals who prefer data-informed decision-making, can navigate multiple layers of a system, and want their engineering to be closely connected to measurable product behaviour rather than isolated services.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
Why Snowflake?
Snowflake started with a clear vision: develop an AI cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Snowflake developed an innovative new product with a built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. We are now a global, world-class organization with offices in more than a dozen countries and serving many more.
About the Growth & Experimentation Team
The Growth Platform team is committed to expanding our business and ensuring that all our customers, from small startups to large enterprises, achieve success with Snowflake. Our team enhances the infrastructure and user experience to help customers maximize the value of their cloud data platform initiatives. We focus on several key areas:
User Acquisition: We develop strategies and tools to attract new users.
User Usage Expansion: We recommend features and build experiences to increase new feature adoption and engagement.
Marketing Intelligence: We leverage data to improve our marketing efforts and better serve our customers.
Community Building: We create a strong, engaged community around our platform.
Experimentation infrastructure: Build the infra to enable running hundreds of experiments.
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER FOR GROWTH PLATFORM TEAM, YOU WILL:
Drive high impact initiatives that span our product areas and tech stack including Golang, Python, JavaScript (React), SQL.
Analyze large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for optimization.
Apply advanced modeling techniques and analyze extensive datasets to generate feature recommendations that drive maximum user engagement.
Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design, product management.
Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
Build for scale and high performance.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
7+ years hands-on software development experience, including significant experience in backend or full stack software development
Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance and scale.
Proficiency in working with big data and implementing statistical or machine learning models.
Experience working on B2B or B2C growth initiatives is a plus
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
