Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits in a distinctly SaaS problem space: enabling secure, governed sharing of data, applications, and AI models inside large enterprises without duplicating data. Building an internal marketplace on top of a cloud data platform touches the mechanics that make modern SaaS platforms sticky at scale, namely identity and access controls, policy, discovery, publishing, and observability across regions and clouds.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the work maps closely to platform engineering in a product-led environment where internal capabilities become customer-facing primitives. Experience designing highly available distributed services, operational readiness, and lifecycle management for “data products” transfers well to other SaaS domains that depend on multi-tenant governance, enterprise security expectations, and reliability commitments. The emphasis on performance and concurrency also aligns with the core systems skills valued in infrastructure-adjacent SaaS teams.
This role tends to suit engineers who enjoy owning foundational services and thinking in terms of platforms rather than single features. It is a strong match for professionals comfortable balancing architecture, delivery, and on-call quality, and who want their work to intersect with governance and marketplace-style workflows inside a cloud ecosystem.
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 Internal Collaboration team builds software to share data, apps, and AI models across different business units, regions, and clouds within a single organization—without moving or copying the data. The team builds the Internal Marketplaceas a data product storefront for our users.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - INTERNAL COLLABORATION YOU WILL:
Lead highly impactful initiatives around Snowflake Data Collaboration and Internal Marketplace
Innovate and build highly secured and reliable software to allow customers to be data-driven.
Architect and build systems that enable our customers to manage every critical aspect of the data product lifecycle, including curation, discovery, governance, policy configurations, certification, publishing, observability.
Design and implement highly available distributed platforms within the global Snowflake.
Revolutionize how organizations distribute, consume, and use data as a strategic business asset.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.
OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - SHARING FOUNDATIONS, WILL HAVE:
7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale applications and distributed systems in production.
Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, or C++ with an emphasis on performance and reliability.
Experience with AI-driven/first software development
Experience building cloud applications and working with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Deep understanding of distributed transaction processing, concurrency control, and high-performance query engines.
Familiarity with Marketplace applications and product lifecycle management
Familiarity with data governance, security, and access control models in distributed data systems.
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
ABOUT INTERNAL COLLABORATION:
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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
