Software Engineer

Snowflake; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

401(k)

FSA/HSA

12 paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Other benefits

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a software engineer to design and build features for large-scale systems. You will lead engineers, set technical direction, and manage all aspects of complex projects from design through on-call support.

You will help create highly reliable software, ensure operational readiness, and build Kubernetes-based container platform features at scale, with Snowpark Container Services as a strategic area.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of industry experience building features and capabilities of large scale systems or infrastructure level platforms.
• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills and experience building distributed systems.
• Hands-on coding experience in Java, C++ or Go.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
• Lead a team of engineers, mentor and guide them, and set technical direction for key areas.
• Manage all aspects of the project including design, coding, reviews, testing, observability, tooling and on-call support.
• Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant software for large customers.
• Ensure operational readiness and maintainability with focus on reliability and performance.
• Design and build Kubernetes-based OCI-compliant container compute platform features.
• Contribute to Snowpark Container Services as an early-stage initiative.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

C++

Go

4+ years experience

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.

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL:

• Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
• Lead a team of engineers, including mentoring and guiding them, and build technical direction and strategy for large and critical parts of the product surface area.
• Manage all aspects of the Project, including Design, Coding, Reviews, Testing, Observability, Tooling and On-Call support.
• Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
• Ensure operational readiness and maintainability of the service with heavy focus on reliability, availability, debuggability and performance.
• Design and build Kubernetes based OCI compliant container compute platform features and capabilities that scale and evolve with changing business and customer needs.
• Snowpark Container Services is still in an early stage of development - it is an amazing opportunity for outsized impact on Snowflake’s growth story.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE MOST OF THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excitement to learn new things - passion to learn and grow are keys to success on this team.
• Be a team player - Our team culture is a priority. Transparency, knowledge sharing, fun events, and helping each other are all part of our work environment
• Work across functions and across teams - we don’t only work on code that we own, we work with other parts of Snowflake every day.
• 4+ years of industry experience building features and capabilities of large scale systems or infrastructure level platforms.
• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills and experience building distributed systems.
• Hands-on coding experience in Java, C++ or Go is highly desirable
• Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office.

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?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $230,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes:

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life
• disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• flexible spending & health savings account
• at least 12 paid holidays
• paid time off
• parental leave
• employee assistance program
• other company benefits

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

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