Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake Notebooks sits at the intersection of cloud data platforms and developer tooling, a part of the SaaS ecosystem where product experience and platform capabilities meet. Building an interactive, cell-based environment for Python and SQL inside a broader data cloud highlights a modern SaaS pattern: embedding workflows directly into the product so users can analyze, prototype, and operationalize work without leaving the platform.
For a SaaS engineering career, this kind of surface area is valuable because it blends customer-facing feature development with the realities of operating at platform scale. The role touches full stack concerns and requires coordination across adjacent domains like machine learning services, container execution, billing, and infrastructure, which mirrors how mature SaaS products evolve through tightly-coupled internal platforms. Experience here tends to translate well to other SaaS companies building integrated developer experiences, analytics interfaces, or data products.
This position will suit an engineer who enjoys cross-functional delivery and shaping technical direction, not just implementing tickets. It fits someone comfortable navigating multiple codebases and stakeholders, and who prefers work where performance, reliability, and product usability all matter in equal measure.
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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.
Snowflake started with a clear vision: develop a cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Snowflake developed an innovative new product with a built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. We are now a global, world-class organization with offices in more than a dozen countries and serving many more.
Snowflake Notebooks is a development interface in Snowsight that offers an interactive, cell-based programming environment for Python and SQL. In Snowflake Notebooks, you can perform exploratory data analysis, develop machine learning models, and perform other data science and data engineering tasks all in one place.
To learn more about the capabilities of the Notebook products please visit https://www.snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/notebooks/
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER FOR SNOWFLAKE NOTEBOOKS, YOU WILL:
Drive high impact initiatives that span our product areas and tech stack including NodeJS, Java and JavaScript (React).
Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design, product management.
Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams such as Machine Learning, Container Services, billing and cloud infrastructure.
Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
Build for scale and high performance.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
7+ years hands-on software development experience, including significant experience in backend or full stack software development (internships count)
Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance and scale.
Knowledge of data development tools, data infrastructure, or ML is a plus.
Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects..
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.
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
