Snowflake · 3 days ago
Senior Software Engineer - Openflow
Menlo Park, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $288K/yr
7+ years expSnowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Openflow team. This role involves designing and implementing features for a next-generation data integration platform, focusing on real-time data movement and distributed systems.
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Responsibilities
Design and implement features in Openflow’s control plane and data plane, contributing to reliable, scalable, and secure services that power real-time, bi-directional data movement for our customers
Build and evolve distributed systems for batch and streaming workloads, enabling high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines across Snowflake and non-Snowflake environments, for both structured and multi-modal unstructured data
Own medium-sized projects end to end—from requirements clarification and technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-up improvements—with appropriate guidance from Staff and Principal engineers
Take operational ownership of the components you build, including monitoring, on-call participation, incident response, and contributing to post-incident reviews and reliability improvements
Apply and promote solid engineering practices in your area—clean code, robust testing, observability, security, and documentation—to keep our platform easy to operate and evolve
Collaborate closely with peers across engineering, product, and design, translating ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans, breaking work into milestones, and communicating progress and risks
Analyze and improve performance, scalability, and reliability of existing services and pipelines, using metrics, profiling, and experimentation to guide optimizations
Mentor junior engineers and interns, providing constructive code reviews, design feedback, and sharing domain knowledge in Openflow, Snowflake, and distributed systems
Contribute to shared platform tooling and patterns, helping make it easier for Openflow teams to build, deploy, and operate high-quality connectors and runtimes
Qualification
Required
7+ years of industry experience building and operating backend or platform services, including significant hands-on work with distributed systems
Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and systems design, with the ability to apply them pragmatically in production code
Practical experience with distributed systems concepts, such as concurrency, replication, partitioning, streaming, and fault tolerance, and how they impact correctness, performance, and operability
Solid understanding of operating systems and networking basics, including multi-threading, memory management, storage, and debugging performance/scale issues
Proficiency in Java or a similar object-oriented language (e.g., Scala, Go, C++), and experience working in large, shared codebases
Experience building cloud-native services on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), using containers, CI/CD, and modern monitoring/logging stacks
A track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable solutions to non-trivial engineering problems, balancing speed with long-term reliability and simplicity
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with teammates across locations, give and receive feedback, and explain technical trade-offs clearly
BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience building and shipping distributed systems
Preferred
Experience with data integration, observability, or streaming/flow technologies (e.g., Apache NiFi, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, or similar) or with analytics/data platforms
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, life, and 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
Company
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.03BKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalICONIQ GrowthAltimeter Capital
2022-04-19Post Ipo Equity· $621.46M
2020-09-16IPO
2020-02-07Series G· $479M
Leadership Team
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Chief Executive Officer
Benoit Dageville
Snowflake Co-founder, President of Product
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