Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at a foundational layer of a large, cloud-native SaaS platform: provisioning and control-plane capabilities that determine how reliably a multi-tenant service can run across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. In the SaaS ecosystem, this kind of work is central to delivering consistent customer experience at scale, because it connects product promises like availability and concurrency to concrete infrastructure abstractions and operational behavior.
For a long-term SaaS engineering career, the role builds durable expertise in distributed systems that directly maps to modern platform engineering and SRE-adjacent paths. It offers sustained exposure to the trade-offs that matter in subscription software, including cost versus performance, fault tolerance, and operational readiness. Experience designing services that other internal teams depend on is also highly transferable to other SaaS organizations running complex, multi-cloud or multi-region architectures.
This position tends to suit engineers who prefer deep systems problems over feature delivery, and who like shaping interfaces that reduce cognitive load for downstream teams. It also fits professionals comfortable collaborating across engineering, product, and program functions, where success is measured by reliability and scalability outcomes rather than isolated component output.
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.
There is only one Data Cloud.
Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.
Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it.
Our team is called the Cloud Provisioning team, the core underpinning of what makes Snowflake work across multiple cloud providers. We are creating an abstraction layer between each of our cloud providers and the rest of Snowflake that is optimized for Snowflake’s unique needs. We balance usability, cognitive load, performance, and cost for the rest of Snowflake.
We are actively hiring talented distributed systems developers. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the vision, architecture and approach for the core services that the rest of Snowflake operates on.
AS A SENIOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
·Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
·Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our services layer.
·Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
·Leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams
·Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
·Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.
OUR IDEAL DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
·7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
·2+ years experience in leading a group of junior and senior engineers.
·Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring.
·Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
·Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
·Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java preferred.
·Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.
·Experience with cloud infrastructure - AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
·BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?
·Build an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.
·Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
·Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.
· Learn about and contribute to:
·Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries daily.
·Highly-scalable and reliable cloud platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
·Optimizing performance and resource management in Java systems
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
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
