Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This role sits at a particularly relevant intersection in modern SaaS: product-led application building layered directly onto a cloud data platform. Streamlit-in-Snowflake reflects a broader shift where SaaS companies are embedding developer tooling and app runtimes inside secure, governed environments, reducing the gap between data warehouse and end-user application delivery. That makes the work materially closer to platform SaaS than to a standalone web service.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the position builds durable experience in the mechanics that underpin enterprise subscriptions: multi-tenant design, reliability, observability, and performance under real customer workloads. The emphasis on APIs, distributed systems, and integration with native compute and security models maps well to recurring themes across mature SaaS platforms, including extensibility, governance, and developer experience as a product surface.
It is best suited to engineers who like owning backend systems end to end, from architectural decisions through production operations. The role will fit someone who enjoys collaborating across product and infrastructure boundaries, and who is motivated by turning complex platform constraints into clear, reusable primitives. It also aligns with professionals aiming to deepen platform engineering skills within a SaaS environment shaped by enterprise requirements.
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.
Snowflake is revolutionizing how organizations build and deploy data applications by bringing the power of Streamlit directly into the Snowflake Data Cloud. We are seeking a talented Backend Engineer to join our Streamlit in Snowflake (SiS) team, where you'll build the robust infrastructure and APIs that power seamless, enterprise-grade data application experiences running natively within Snowflake's secure, scalable platform.
As a Backend Software Engineer on the SiS team, you will work with cutting-edge cloud technologies and distributed systems, including Python, Go, Snowflake's compute infrastructure, and cloud-native architectures. You'll be instrumental in building the backend services and APIs that enable the next generation of data application development tools, allowing organizations to create powerful, interactive applications that scale to enterprise workloads without ever leaving their data warehouse.
Your work will directly impact how enterprises worldwide interact with their data, building the performant, secure backend systems that make complex analytics accessible while maintaining Snowflake's hallmarks of security, governance, and performance.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
We're looking for Backend engineers who are excited about building enterprise-grade infrastructure and services for Streamlit in Snowflake, empowering organizations to unlock the full potential of their data through robust application development capabilities within the Snowflake ecosystem.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Build industry-leading backend features and APIs that enterprise users and data teams depend on within the Snowflake platform
Design and implement scalable backend services that seamlessly integrate with Snowflake's native compute, storage, and security infrastructure
Lead projects that span backend architecture, data processing pipelines, and cloud infrastructure within Snowflake's distributed system
Promote strong collaboration within cross-functional teams of Design, Product, Engineering, and Cloud Infrastructure
Build for enterprise scale, performance, and security to serve large organizations and their data workloads, handling high-throughput and low-latency requirements
Contribute to the technical architecture and product vision for data application development in the cloud
Ensure seamless integration with Snowflake's security model, governance features, multi-tenant architecture, and data isolation requirements
Design and optimize APIs for performance, reliability, and developer experience
Implement robust monitoring, observability, and error handling for production systems
YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU:
3+ years of experience building backend systems for enterprise web applications or cloud-based platforms
Strong development skills in Python, Go, or Java, with deep experience in cloud-native architectures
Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful APIs, GraphQL, or gRPC services with focus on performance and scalability
Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud infrastructure patterns
Experience with enterprise software requirements including security, governance, multi-tenancy, data isolation, or platform engineering
Strong system design skills, including understanding of scalability patterns, caching strategies, and performance optimization
Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code
Experience with data processing, streaming systems, or working with large-scale data platforms is highly desirable
Hunger to build exceptional backend systems that scale to enterprise requirements and handle mission-critical workloads
Deep passion for learning and proactively developing new skills, with ability to communicate technical concepts clearly across engineering and business stakeholders
Thrive in dynamic environments with evolving priorities, bringing clarity and organization to complex enterprise requirements
Understanding of data workflows, analytics tools, and data platform architectures is a plus
Experience with security and compliance requirements in enterprise software environments (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA) is preferred
Familiarity with frontend technologies (React, TypeScript) to collaborate effectively with frontend teams is a bonus
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?
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