Senior Software Engineer - Snowflake Streaming

Snowflake • Bellevue, WA

2d • $200,000 - $287,500

About The Position

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.
Our team builds and operates Snowflake's Streaming Platform — the core infrastructure responsible for bringing data into Snowflake continuously and at scale. This includes Snowpipe Streaming and Datastream, services used by large set of enterprise customers to move mission-critical data in real time. Data is the fuel powering the new enterprise AI world, and we are the team responsible for getting it there reliably, continuously, and fast.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of software engineering experience on large-scale distributed systems or cloud services
• Strong proficiency in Java or C++
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, and backpressure
• Experience building or operating high-throughput, low-latency services in production
• Strong debugging skills across the stack — from application logic to network and storage layers
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and multi-tenant service design

Nice To Haves

• Experience building streaming or ingestion systems (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink, or similar)
• Familiarity with database internals — WAL, columnar storage, or transaction processing
• Experience with observability tooling at scale (distributed tracing, metrics pipelines)
• Prior work on a cloud-native SaaS platform (Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core components of Snowflake's streaming ingestion platform
• Improve service reliability, scalability, and latency under high-throughput production workloads
• Debug and resolve incidents in a distributed, multi-tenant cloud service
• Contribute to the design and evolution of streaming APIs, SDKs, and server-side protocols
• Write comprehensive tests including unit, integration, and chaos/fault-injection scenarios
• Collaborate with partner teams (storage, query, compute) on cross-cutting platform concerns
• Participate in code reviews, on-call rotations, and architecture discussions

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed