Senior Backend Engineer - Warehouse & Billing Systems

Snowflake Inc.; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Warehouse UX pod. This role focuses on backend distributed systems powering warehouse features, billing, and usability, not a front-end position.

The ideal candidate has 4–7 years of professional software engineering experience, strong debugging skills, and a track record delivering medium-sized projects independently within a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong programming, debugging, and software design skills in one or more modern languages.
• Experience building and operating backend or distributed systems in production.
• Ability to independently execute on medium-sized projects and deliver them to completion.
• Ability to contribute as a strong technical partner on larger, cross-team projects.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and engineering best practices.
• Experience participating in on-call, production support, or incident response for live systems.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego working style.
• A customer-oriented mindset and good judgment about reliability, usability, and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate backend software and distributed systems that power Snowflake Warehouses.
• Own medium-sized engineering projects independently from design through delivery, and contribute to larger initiatives across the warehouse organization.
• Build and evolve capabilities related to warehouse features, billing, and usability.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational health of warehouse systems in production.
• Work across the full software lifecycle, including technical design, implementation, testing, rollout, on-call participation, issue triage, and production improvements.
• Partner closely with engineers, product managers, and adjacent teams to deliver durable solutions to customer and business problems.
• Make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, quality, maintainability, and long-term architectural health.
• Use debugging and systems thinking to resolve production issues and improve service behavior over time.
• Raise the bar through design reviews, code reviews, operational rigor, and clear technical communication.
• Apply AI-assisted workflows where they increase engineering leverage, speed, or quality without compromising judgment.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Programming skills

On-call experience

Debugging

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Snowflake Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Warehouse UX pod. This role focuses on backend distributed systems powering warehouse features, billing, and usability, not a front-end position.

The ideal candidate has 4–7 years of professional software engineering experience, strong debugging skills, and a track record delivering medium-sized projects independently within a fast-moving environment.