Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Data Platforms

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Observe team to own the streaming data product surface—tables, views, and materialized views at the core of Observe's architecture. This role focuses on data modeling, API design, and scalable data workflows.

You will define freshness semantics, craft robust APIs, and guide architectural direction while mentoring engineers. The position blends startup velocity with Snowflake’s enterprise-scale platform and capability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering in databases, SQL, and streaming.
• Deep knowledge of streaming internals and data pipelines.
• Experience designing and shipping APIs with DB schema design.
• Systems thinking with long-term evolution in mind.

Responsibilities

• Own the data modeling surface—the APIs, schemas, and abstractions for tables, views, and materialized views.
• Design abstractions for queryable data like streaming materialized views and reference tables.
• Define freshness semantics and controls for latency vs. compute costs.
• Design APIs with strong schema taste: versioning, compatibility, polymorphic models.
• Drive requirements and shape the execution engine based on product surface needs.
• Layer complexity so SREs can get a useful table from defaults, while data engineers can build multi-stage pipelines.
• Lead a team technically: direction, production code, mentoring.

Skills

Software engineering

Databases

Go

APIs

System design

Tools

SQL

Streaming systems

Apache Iceberg

Job description

Snowflake is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the Observe team to own the streaming data product surface—tables, views, and materialized views at the core of Observe's architecture. This role focuses on data modeling, API design, and scalable data workflows.

You will define freshness semantics, craft robust APIs, and guide architectural direction while mentoring engineers. The position blends startup velocity with Snowflake’s enterprise-scale platform and capability.