Snowflake · 2 weeks ago
Staff Software Engineer
Menlo Park, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$236K/yr - $339K/yr
10+ years expSnowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. The Staff Software Engineer on the Snowflake Openflow team will design and build core components of the data integration platform, focusing on real-time, scalable data movement and collaborating with various teams to enhance system performance and reliability.
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Responsibilities
Design and build core components of Openflow’s control plane and data plane, delivering reliable, scalable, and secure services that power real-time, bi-directional data movement for global customers
Implement and evolve distributed systems that handle batch and streaming workloads, enabling high-throughput, low-latency pipelines for structured and multi-modal unstructured data across Snowflake and non-Snowflake environments
Lead medium-to-large, complex projects end to end—from problem definition and technical design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing improvements—while keeping quality, reliability, and operability front of mind
Own key services in production, including monitoring, alerting, on-call participation, incident response, and post-incident reviews, ensuring we consistently meet our durability, availability, and performance goals
Drive engineering best practices in your area—code quality, testing, observability, security, and documentation—and help standardize patterns that improve the entire platform
Collaborate closely with product management, peer teams, and customers’ needs to translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical plans and pragmatic milestones
Analyze and improve system performance and reliability, using metrics, profiling, and experimentation to identify bottlenecks and guide optimizations
Mentor and support other engineers on the team, providing thoughtful code reviews, design feedback, and technical guidance that help them grow
Contribute to the broader Openflow and Snowflake engineering community, sharing knowledge, improving common libraries and tooling, and influencing how we build and operate data integration systems
Qualification
Required
10+ years of industry experience building and operating backend or platform services, with significant time spent on large-scale, distributed systems
Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, systems design, and a solid understanding of how to apply them in production environments
Hands-on experience with distributed systems concepts, such as concurrency, replication, sharding/partitioning, streaming, and fault tolerance, and how they impact correctness and performance
Deep understanding of operating systems and networking basics, including multi-threading and concurrency, memory management, storage, and performance/debugging tools
Proficiency in Java or a similar object-oriented language (e.g., Scala, Go, C++), and comfort working with large, existing codebases as well as designing new components
Experience building cloud-native services on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), using containers and modern CI/CD, monitoring, and logging practices
A track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable solutions to complex problems, balancing long-term technical health with near-term impact
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and time zones, build consensus on designs, and clearly articulate trade-offs
BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degrees are a plus but not required
Preferred
Experience with data integration, streaming, or workflow systems (e.g., Apache NiFi, Kafka, Flink, Airflow) or data/analytics platforms is a strong plus
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
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.03BKey Investors
Dragoneer Investment Group,Global Secure Invest,Salesforce VenturesSequoia CapitalAltimeter Capital,ICONIQ Growth,Sequoia 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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