Senior Software Engineer - Warehouse UX

Snowflake•Menlo Park, CA

1d•$200,000 - $287,500

About The Position

Snowflake is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Warehouse UX pod. The team owns critical warehouse capabilities spanning features, billing, and usability. Although the pod is called Warehouse UX, this is a backend engineering role focused on distributed systems that power warehouse behavior, customer-facing warehouse capabilities, metering and billing-related functionality, and reliable, usable core warehouse workflows. Warehouses are mission-critical to Snowflake’s platform and a major revenue driver. The role is suited to an engineer with 4 to 7 years of experience who can independently drive medium-sized projects from design through delivery, contribute to larger cross-team efforts, and apply strong technical judgment. The engineer will work across the software lifecycle, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, operations, on-call participation, issue triage, and production improvements. Snowflake values AI-native, curious, low-ego engineers who thrive in a fast-moving environment and use experimentation and AI-assisted workflows to improve their impact.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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 medium-sized projects and deliver them to completion.
Ability to contribute as a technical partner on larger, cross-team projects.
Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and engineering best practices across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations.
Experience participating in on-call, production support, or incident response for live systems.
Strong communication skills and a collaborative, low-ego working style.
Customer-oriented mindset and good judgment about reliability, usability, and business impact.

Nice To Haves

Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, or large-scale backend services.
Experience working on billing, metering, control plane systems, or customer-facing platform capabilities.
Familiarity with performance-sensitive or highly reliable production environments.
Comfort navigating ambiguity and breaking down complex technical problems into practical solutions.

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 follow-through on production improvements.
Partner with engineers, product managers, and adjacent teams to deliver durable solutions to customer and business problems.
Make thoughtful tradeoffs among speed, quality, maintainability, and long-term architectural health.
Use debugging and systems thinking to resolve complex production issues and improve service behavior.
Contribute to 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.