Openflow Software Engineer - Real-Time Data Pipelines

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Software Engineer for the Openflow team to design and implement real-time, bi-directional data movement within a cloud-native platform. You will contribute to distributed systems and workflows across Snowflake and external environments, delivering scalable services with strong engineering discipline.

The role requires a solid CS foundation, production experience with distributed systems, and proficiency in Java or similar languages.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience building and operating backend or platform services.
• Practical knowledge of distributed systems concepts and concurrency.
• Experience with cloud-native services and containers (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Proficiency in Java or similar OO language; Scala/Go/C++ acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement features in Openflow’s control plane and data plane for real-time, bi-directional data movement.
• Contribute to distributed systems for batch and streaming workloads with high throughput and low latency.
• Deliver small projects end-to-end from design to rollout with guidance from senior engineers.
• Operate and support built components including monitoring, on-call, and incident response.
• Follow solid engineering practices: clean code, testing, observability, security, documentation.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and design to clarify requirements and plan milestones.
• Analyze and improve performance, scalability, and reliability using profiling and metrics.
• Contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java (or similar OO language)

Cloud-native services

Strong CS fundamentals

Large codebases

Collaboration & communication

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring stacks

Job description

Snowflake is seeking a Software Engineer for the Openflow team to design and implement real-time, bi-directional data movement within a cloud-native platform. You will contribute to distributed systems and workflows across Snowflake and external environments, delivering scalable services with strong engineering discipline.

The role requires a solid CS foundation, production experience with distributed systems, and proficiency in Java or similar languages.