Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role sits in a distinctly SaaS platform context: building native application capabilities on top of a large-scale data cloud. The work is tied to marketplace-style distribution and the underlying lifecycle mechanics that make third-party apps viable in a managed environment, including rollout, installation, and secure execution. Within the SaaS ecosystem, that combination of platform engineering and ecosystem enablement is a recurring pattern for companies expanding from a single product into an application platform.
From a career perspective, the role offers exposure to problems that translate across modern SaaS infrastructure teams: designing APIs and primitives that other teams and external developers depend on, balancing security with usability, and engineering for performance at scale. Experience spanning multiple languages and cross-functional planning also maps well to SaaS organizations where product surfaces evolve quickly and reliability expectations remain high.
The position is best suited to an engineer who prefers foundational work over feature-only delivery, and who is comfortable navigating ambiguity while shaping durable platform interfaces. It will appeal to someone who enjoys collaborating with product and design partners and is motivated by enabling other builders, not just end-user functionality. Toronto on-site presence suggests close iteration with a core team.
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.
Snowflake is a global platform where thousands of organizations store and process their data. Our Data Marketplace allows our customers to exchange data across geographies, organizationions and cloud providers. We are now building an App Marketplace on top of the Data Marketplace. Think of it as an App Store or Play Store but with the apps running on the Snowflake Cloud, not phones. Snowflake is becoming an application platform. It’s a new, big, and differentiating feature for Snowflake and our customers.
The Native Apps team in Toronto is in the center of this innovation. We’re working on the core building blocks for the apps to support the app lifecycle - creation, versioning, global rollouts, installation and execution in a secure sandbox. We enable app runtimes for multiple languages and execution models. We deal with many aspects of the app framework from access control and permissions, through IP protection to UI frameworks. We’re still early in our journey and we are looking for talented and passionate engineers to innovate with us. Our big, multi-year goal is to launch a hugely successful app ecosystem. We count not only on your deep tech expertise and problem solving skills but also on eagerness to evangelize the new platform among developers.
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER FOR NATIVE APPS, 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, including design, product management.
Deliver features requiring close coordination with cross-functional teams
Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
Build for scale and high performance.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
2+ years hands-on software development experience, including significant experience in backend software development
Deep understanding of distributed design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance and scale.
Knowledge of data development tools, data infrastructure, or ML is a plus.
You go to work everyday striving to be the very best you can be. You're undaunted by ambiguity and are motivated to drive impact.
ABOUT APPS AND SNOWFLAKE:
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
