Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Developer Experience engineering role stands out in SaaS because it sits on the “internal platform” layer that determines how quickly and safely a product organization can ship. In a company operating at enterprise scale, improvements to build, test, and delivery tooling compound across many teams and directly influence reliability and release cadence—core mechanics behind any mature SaaS offering.
From a SaaS career perspective, Developer Experience work builds durable platform engineering instincts: designing elastic tooling, balancing performance with simplicity, and treating developer workflows as products with measurable outcomes. The problems tend to be cross-cutting—touching CI/CD, observability, and distributed systems fundamentals—so the experience transfers well to other SaaS environments where productivity and operational excellence are competitive differentiators.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer leverage over feature ownership: people motivated by reducing friction, standardizing practices, and enabling other engineers to deliver. It also fits those who enjoy collaborating across teams, communicating clearly about trade-offs, and iterating on internal tools with a strong quality bar, particularly in on-site settings where tight feedback loops are valued.
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.
The Developer Experience team empowers Snowflake engineers to do what they do best: write and ship highly reliable code with leading edge tools and minimum friction. We are hiring a talented Software Engineer to help us deliver the next generation of tools used by our world-class engineers to develop our flagship product. Together with industry-wide experts in developer productivity, you will evolve our infrastructure and tooling to be elastic, large-scale, and highly performant with simplicity and ease-of-use at its core.
OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
2+ years of hands-on software development experience in a corporate environment.
A strong passion for making developers highly productive.
A track record of flawless technical execution.
Excellent problem solving skills and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Fluency in Java, C++, Python or Golang.
Ability to work in a highly collaborative team environment.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
Outstanding written and oral English language skills.
Ability to work on-site at our Bellevue, WA office.
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
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
