Snowflake
Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion
US-WA-Bellevue · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 7 days ago
JavaC++Distributed SystemsData StructuresSnowflakeAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsAPI DevelopmentKafkaSparkLeadershipCommunication
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About the role
- 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.
- At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Responsibilities
- Deliver Customer-Facing Innovations: Lead the end-to-end execution of enterprise-grade external features, ensuring low-latency data landing, high availability, and seamless ecosystem integration (e.g., Snowpark Connect, partner connectors).
- Set Technical Direction: Author foundational design documents, establish technical standards for reliability, security, and scalability, and lead high-stakes architectural reviews across engineering orgs.
- Lead Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with Principal Architects, Product Management, Security, and external developer platforms to translate customer requirements into resilient system architecture.
- raise the bar for system design, code quality, testing methodologies, and operational maturity.
- Deep expertise in external API design, cloud service orchestration, and building resilient, multi-tenant customer-facing endpoints.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to drive technical consensus across cross-functional leadership, product partners, and external technical stakeholders.
- Elevate Engineering Excellence: Mentor and sponsor Senior, Mid-level, and Junior engineers; raise the bar for system design, code quality, testing methodologies, and operational maturity.
- Deliver Customer-Facing Innovations:
- Lead the end-to-end execution of enterprise-grade external features, ensuring low-latency data landing, high availability, and seamless ecosystem integration (e.g., Snowpark Connect, partner connectors).
- Author foundational design documents, establish technical standards for reliability, security, and scalability, and lead high-stakes architectural reviews across engineering orgs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud-native infrastructure in production.
- Proven track record of architectural leadership, having successfully taken complex, customer-facing services or external APIs from initial concept to General Availability (GA) and global scale.
- Expert proficiency in Java or C++ (strong preference for engineers comfortable working across both systems-level C++ and managed service Java frameworks).
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Deep expertise with open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake) and integration with ecosystems like Apache Spark or Ray.
- Advanced performance engineering expertise: memory management, SIMD, vectorization, lock-free data structures, or I/O optimization at PB-scale.
Compensation
- For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com
Benefits
- Drive Technical Vision & Architecture: Define the multi-year architecture and technical strategy for high-throughput, external-facing ingestion services and APIs across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Company info
- At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Elevate Engineering Excellence: Mentor and sponsor Senior, Mid-level, and Junior engineers; raise the bar for system design, code quality, testing methodologies, and operational maturity
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