Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role sits in a core SaaS integration layer: the connector platform that moves and synchronises data between external systems and a cloud data warehouse. In the SaaS ecosystem, connectors are infrastructure that directly shapes adoption because they reduce switching costs and determine how reliably customers can operationalise data across tools, databases, and streams.
From a career standpoint, the work builds durable SaaS engineering depth in platform thinking rather than single-feature delivery. Designing CDC-style ingestion, scheduling services, and secure transfer patterns develops instincts for multi-tenant reliability, performance tuning, and backward-compatible APIs, all of which translate well across data, infrastructure, and developer-platform teams in SaaS. The customer-facing troubleshooting element also sharpens the ability to link production behaviour to product outcomes.
The role is best suited to engineers who enjoy building frameworks other developers depend on and who value clear design documentation and cross-functional alignment. It will fit someone comfortable moving between distributed systems concerns, SQL and relational concepts, and pragmatic API design, with an interest in how third-party ecosystems extend a SaaS platform.
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
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Our team develops in-house connectors to connect with external systems and data warehouses. We are working to connect Snowflake with Fortune 500 companies - in the cloud. In this area you will be working on exposing API, blueprints and frameworks for other developers to create their own connectors.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Design and develop data integration and processing applications. These applications replicate data from various data sources (including relational databases, SaaS, data streams) into Snowflake, following CDC patterns.
Develop and extend a robust connector platform to standardize and accelerate the development of connectors, either developed by Snowflake or by third parties. Typical example includes developing a scheduling service ensuring timely execution of tasks and optimal resource allocation.
Optimize performance of the ingestion, meet with customers & troubleshoot issues and secure data transfer from external systems.
Create design documents and present them to local architects and other stakeholders.
Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous communication to ensure goals are met.
Collaborate with PMs and customers to understand business requirements, and translate them into connector application solutions.
YOUR PROFILE
3+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems.
Fluency in Java.
Experience with high performance and scalable software in an internet scale distributed cloud environment.
Experience with SQL. Good understanding of relational databases.
Interest in creating well thought out infrastructure and APIs.
Good communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external developers.
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?
Building cutting edge cloud technologies is complex, and our engineering team surmounts the obstacles. As a member of our team, you will:
Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.
Learn about and contribute to:
Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
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
