Lead Data Connector Platform Engineer (Cloud Ingestion)

Snowflake; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking engineers to design and build data integration and connector platforms at cloud scale. The role focuses on replicating data from diverse sources, optimizing ingestion performance, and ensuring secure data transfers across systems.

You will collaborate across teams, create design documentation, and mentor engineers while translating business needs into robust connector solutions for customers and partners.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems.
• Experience with high performance and scalable software in an internet scale distributed cloud environment.
• Fluency in Java.
• Demonstrate a proactive willingness to learn, experiment with, and integrate modern AI tools into daily workflows to optimize personal and team efficiency.
• Experience with SQL. Good understanding of relational databases.
• Interest in creating well thought out infrastructure and APIs.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, especially in a cloud environment.
• Great communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external developers.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop data integration and processing applications. These applications replicate data from various data sources into Snowflake, following CDC patterns.
• Develop and extend a robust connector platform to standardise and accelerate the development of connectors, either developed by Snowflake or by third parties.
• Optimize performance of the ingestion, meet with customers & troubleshoot issues and secure data transfer from external systems.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization and roles.
• Create design documents and present them to architects and other stakeholders, including company founders.
• Lead and mentor a group of engineers
• Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous communication to ensure goals are met.
• Collaborate with PMs and customers to understand business requirements, and translate them into connector application solutions.

Skills

Java

SQL

Cloud experience

API design

Debugging

Communication

Job description

Snowflake is seeking engineers to design and build data integration and connector platforms at cloud scale. The role focuses on replicating data from diverse sources, optimizing ingestion performance, and ensuring secure data transfers across systems.

You will collaborate across teams, create design documentation, and mentor engineers while translating business needs into robust connector solutions for customers and partners.