Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer XP role stands out in the SaaS landscape because it sits close to the core of a cloud data platform’s value proposition: query processing at scale. Work on an elastic, high-performance engine reflects the kind of foundational infrastructure that modern SaaS products rely on to deliver reliable, multi-tenant analytics and data workloads for enterprise customers.
For a long-term SaaS engineering career, experience in performance analysis, scalability bottlenecks, and fault-tolerant distributed systems tends to transfer across many product categories, from data platforms to observability and financial systems. The emphasis on instrumentation, debugging, and novel optimization approaches also builds the practical skill set needed to improve production systems where latency, throughput, and cost efficiency are directly tied to customer outcomes.
This position is best suited to engineers who prefer deep technical problem solving over surface-level feature work, and who enjoy moving between theory and production constraints. It fits professionals who are comfortable ramping up in complex codebases, collaborating in an English-speaking office environment, and taking ownership of reliability and performance work that may not always be visible in a UI but is central to SaaS product quality.
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.
We’re hiring talented Software Engineers to join the Snowflake Query Processing team! This position is part of our engineering team to evolve our elastic, large scale, high-performance query processing engine. We need smart engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly – and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies! The official language for this office will be English.
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database that is high performant, highly parallel, and fault-tolerant.
Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of some of the largest companies on the planet.
Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.
Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms which allow Snowflake to provide industry leading data warehousing capabilities.
Design and implement the new service architecture required to enable the Snowflake Data Cloud.
Develop tools for improving our customers' insights into their workloads.
OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
2+ years industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
Fluency in C++.
Familiarity with development in a Linux environment.
Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
Experience with implementation testing, debugging and documentation.
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field; Masters or PhD preferred.
Ability to work on-site in our Berlin office.
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
SQL or other database technologies including internal design and implementation of database engines.
Query optimization, query execution, compiler design and implementation.
Large scale distributed systems, transactions and consistency models.
Data warehouse design, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions like Hadoop and Spark.
Big data storage technologies and their applications, e.g., HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.
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
