Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role sits in the part of a SaaS business that often determines whether a product can reliably serve enterprise workloads at scale: the internal platform and runtime foundations. Working on Java libraries and JVM infrastructure for a data cloud places the focus on shared primitives that many product teams build on, where small design choices have outsized impact on availability, latency, and operational safety.
For a SaaS career, platform engineering experience like this compounds. It builds fluency in observability, performance tuning, and reliability practices that are broadly applicable across cloud products, especially those with multi-tenant demands and strict uptime expectations. The emphasis on diagnosing production issues, automating monitoring, and improving consistency across engineering teams maps closely to how mature SaaS organizations reduce operational drag while increasing release confidence.
The role is best suited to engineers who prefer systems-level work over feature delivery, and who enjoy making other engineers more effective through better infrastructure. It fits professionals who are comfortable collaborating across distributed teams and who like iterating through measurement and root-cause analysis, particularly when the work involves JVM internals, concurrency, and large-scale service behavior.
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.
Build the Future of Data. Join the Snowflake Team.
We are actively hiring software engineers from Europe and around the world for our European Engineering Center. Our office is located at Potsdamer Platz, in the heart of Berlin. It’s easily accessible by train, subway, bus, or bicycle – with numerous restaurants, cafes, and shops within walking distance. The official language for this office is English.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of skilled engineers, building and maintaining the future of the Java infrastructure that powers the data cloud. As part of this team, you will work on the core Java libraries and JVM infrastructure that support our scalable, high-performance platform, impacting millions of users globally.
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER ON THE JAVA PLATFORM TEAM, YOU WILL:
Contribute to building the next-generation systems that make using Java safe, efficient, and secure
Help provide a consistent, high-performance platform that Snowflake engineers can use to deliver high-quality solutions to production.
Identify performance and availability issues, implement effective solutions, and instrument key components as needed.
Collaborate with global teams to solve real-world, large-scale challenges in data infrastructure.
Continuously improve the reliability and performance of our Java infrastructure through proactive monitoring and automation.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERS WHO:
Have experience building, supporting, and troubleshooting complex Java systems.
Understand Java fundamentals, including the JVM and core libraries.
Have solid computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Are eager to learn about JVM internals and performance tuning.
Thrive in collaborative environments, contributing to shared team goals.
Have a BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience (advanced degrees a plus).
Bonus points for:
Experience with multi-threading, concurrency, and caching.
Knowledge of database or Linux internals.
Previous experience with large-scale, high-performance systems.
Join us and be a part of a team that is driving the future of the data cloud.
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
