Principal Software Engineer

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

We are at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Our ‘get it done’ culture allows everyone at Snowflake to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration.

Snowflake brings unprecedented flexibility and scalability to data warehousing. The costs associated with using Snowflake are based on customers’ usage of resources. The Billing & Payments Platform team builds Snowflake’s central data repository and infrastructure on customer resource consumption, revenue processing, invoicing and reporting. It powers Snowflake’s businesses and engineering teams, and in the process provides reference architectures for customers. 

We are looking for an experienced Principal Software Engineer to build our new Payment Platform. To be successful in the role, the candidate needs to have significant experience in software engineering and domain expertise in databases and/or payment systems.

AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL:

• Drive highly impactful initiatives from idea formulation, to design, and to implementation.

• Innovate and build a reliable and scalable Payment Platform leveraging Snowflake technologies.

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering team members and finance/revenue teams to build new features and products for business needs.

• Identify the improvements in our systems, data models, functional gaps, and design and build the solutions.

• Provide a technical roadmap for the team.

• Provide technical guidance to other engineers.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 15+ years of software development experience 

• Extensive and strong development experience in Java and SQL.

• Technical leadership, strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Experience in databases and payment systems is a plus.

• BS/MS/PHD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience. 

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee’s duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?