Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake sits in the modern cloud data platform layer of SaaS, where developer experience and product ergonomics directly influence adoption. This Senior Software Engineer role is notable because it targets the Data Engineering Experience surface area, the workflows where teams ingest data, author pipelines, and troubleshoot reliability. In a category defined by scale, performance, and trust, improving these interfaces and frameworks is tightly coupled to customer outcomes.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the position builds durable strengths in building customer facing platforms: designing APIs, balancing usability with security, and shipping capabilities that must operate across many tenants and workloads. The remit spans multiple languages and coordination with adjacent teams, which is typical of mature SaaS organizations where systems are interconnected and changes require careful rollout discipline. Experience here translates well to other data and infrastructure SaaS products where observability, onboarding, and workflow tooling are differentiators.
The role fits an engineer who enjoys cross functional product building rather than isolated backend work, and who is comfortable shaping plans as well as delivering code. It will suit someone who values mentoring and wants to influence technical direction while staying close to real user workflows in data engineering.
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.
The Data Engineering Experience (DEX) team and help shape the future of data engineering at Snowflake. We are a mature, highly diverse team dedicated to crafting exceptional data ingestion, pipeline authoring, and observability experiences for our customers. If you're passionate about building elegant web applications and frameworks in a collaborative, supportive environment, then we invite you to be part of our team's success story.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER YOU WILL:
Drive high impact initiatives that span our product areas and tech stack including Java, Python, and golang.
Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team and partner closely with embedded product managers and designers.
Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams
Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
Build for scale and high performance
Mentor, coach, and empower more junior team members
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
7+ years hands-on software development experience, including significant experience in full stack software development.
Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance and scale.
Knowledge of database internals and SQL is a big plus.
Passionate about building the best customer-facing products.
Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills.
BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors.
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
