Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Application Engineer role sits at a core SaaS inflection point: helping enterprises move from legacy data systems onto a cloud-native data platform. Work tied to migrations and modernization is a recurring theme across the SaaS ecosystem because it connects product engineering directly to real customer adoption barriers, especially when reliability, security, and performance are non-negotiable.
From a career perspective, the role builds durable SaaS experience in designing end-to-end, customer-facing tools that must operate at scale and withstand varied real-world environments. The emphasis on operational excellence and cross-functional delivery reflects how mature SaaS organizations ship platform capabilities: tight feedback loops with product and architecture, strong quality practices, and measurable service-level outcomes. The stated focus on toolbuilding also translates well to adjacent SaaS domains such as onboarding automation, integration platforms, and developer productivity.
This position tends to suit engineers who enjoy turning complex, ambiguous migration workflows into repeatable software, and who are comfortable balancing product usability with robustness. It also aligns with professionals who like partnering across disciplines and who take pride in disciplined engineering fundamentals rather than narrow feature work.
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.
Snowflake is a cutting-edge, global data platform that empowers thousands of organizations to effortlessly store, process, and harness the full potential of their data with unparalleled efficiency and scalability.
Snowflake Migrations is the expert for migrating to the Snowflake platform, covering code conversion, data migration, data validation, data testing, reporting, and data ingestion, and creates tools like SnowConvert to accelerate the migration of legacy databases.
We're looking for a talented Senior Software Application Engineer to help us continue to grow and build new migrations tools and applications by using cutting-edge technologies.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE APPLICATION ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Innovate the next generation of migration and modernization tools.
Innovate and build highly secured and reliable software to accelerate customer workload migration.
Collaborate with engineers, product managers, solution architects, and designers to deliver cross-functional initiatives.
Ensure operational excellence, meeting reliability, availability, and performance goals.
OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE APPLICATION ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
7+ years of industry experience designing and building software solutions.
Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills.
Deep, multi-faceted appreciation in building end-to-end, customer-facing products.
Interest in establishing development processes and best practices, especially regarding quality and velocity.
Strong knowledge of C#, python, and databases.
Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills.
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors.
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
