Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Full Stack Engineer role sits at a key intersection in modern SaaS: enabling other builders. The App Runtime team is creating a platform that takes web apps from prototype to deployment inside Snowflake’s environment, tying developer experience to enterprise-grade concerns like governance, lineage, and access controls. Because the product is described as early-stage and in public preview, the work is closely connected to shaping how a new SaaS surface area is defined and adopted.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the position builds durable platform engineering credentials. It blends hands-on full stack delivery with operating realities that matter in subscription software, including reliability, performance, multi-tenant considerations, and secure-by-default design. The role also emphasizes writing specs and collaborating across adjacent infrastructure and security teams, which maps well to senior engineering paths in SaaS where influence is earned through technical clarity and cross-team alignment.
This is best suited to an engineer who enjoys owning end-to-end experiences and making pragmatic trade-offs while a product is still being formed. It will appeal to someone comfortable engaging directly with developer customers, translating feedback into UX and API improvements, and mentoring through code quality and review. A bias toward experimentation with AI-assisted development workflows will fit the team’s stated direction.
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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.
About the role
The App Runtime team is building a platform that lets every Snowflake user go from an idea to a live, deployed web application (Node.js first) in minutes. We own the end-to-end experience of building and running apps, from Cortex AI-assisted development to deployment in a secure, scalable infrastructure. Apps built on the platform inherit Snowflake's security, governance, lineage, and access controls by default. See Deploy Faster with Snowflake Apps.
As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will drive initiatives that span our product areas and tech stack. It’s a high-impact role - you will work on an early-stage, public-preview product. Your work will directly shape the product experience developers rely on. This role requires a unique combination of deep hands-on expertise with web frameworks, great UX design instincts, customer obsession and collaboration with backend teams.
Responsibilities
Build the AI-assisted, agentic development experiences that power App Runtime, spanning the full tech stack - React, Go, Python, and Java
Stay deeply hands-on by authoring technical and design specs that consider the system holistically (frontend and backend) and implementing critical code
Partner directly with customers, i.e. developers building Snowflake Apps, translating their needs into features and improvements
Raise the bar for quality, reliability and performance through code review; mentor engineers
Coordinate closely with sister teams such as Cortex AI, Container Platform or Security
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. Master’s or higher is preferred but not a requirement
5+ years of experience including significant experience in frontend or full-stack software development, with a demonstrated track record of designing, shipping and operating high-scale systems
Deep understanding of modern web application architecture (e.g. React, NextJS), good API design patterns, security, performance and scale; proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript, ideally also in Go, Python and/or Java
Good communication skills: crisp write-ups, constructive debate, and ability to drive consensus across engineering, design and product
Nice to have:
Experience shipping 0-1 products where you skillfully balanced the trade-offs between feature completeness and time-to-market
Experience with multi-tenant systems (ideally app hosting platforms or tooling for developers) with strong isolation and a security-first posture
Technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high-impact customer-facing products
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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