Software Engineer

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.

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Data Platform team - the team that owns the core streaming execution and database internals powering Snowflake's platform. You'll work deep in the stack: stream processing runtimes, query execution engines, storage layers, and the distributed systems primitive that everything else is built on.

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER, DATA PLATFORM AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Design and implement high-throughput stream processing systems with strong correctness guarantees - exactly-once semantics, out-of-order event handling, low-latency execution

• Work on database internals - query execution, operator design, storage engine components, or transaction processing at cloud scale

• Own features and systems end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production observability

• Drive architectural decisions that shape the long-term evolution of Snowflake's streaming and core platform layers

• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical guidance

• Partner across product, infrastructure, and research teams to deliver high-impact, foundational capabilities

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in distributed systems, query engines, streaming infrastructure, or database internals (or equivalent, including research)

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field - graduate research in streaming systems, query processing, or database engines is a strong differentiator

• Deep expertise in distributed systems: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, state management

• Hands-on experience with stream processing systems - building, operating, or extending them (industry or academic)