Software Engineer

Snowpark unleashes the power of Snowflake for Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Developers. Snowpark is an interface to Snowflake in different language environments, but also a platform that customers and partners build exciting applications on. And that’s not all - Snowpark is also used by various teams at Snowflake to build new products and features for customers.

THE OPPORTUNITIES OF THIS ROLE

• Work across functions and across teams - we don’t only work on code that we own, we work with other parts of Snowflake every day 
• Learn about and contribute to query engine internals, performance debugging, building highly scalable and maintainable systems, and much more
• Snowpark is still in a relatively early stage of development - it is an amazing opportunity for outsized impact on our customers and Snowflake’s growth story
• Our team culture is a priority - transparency, knowledge sharing, fun events, and helping each other are all part of our work environment
• We don’t have a roadmap that is set in stone - you will be part of planning and together we set the roadmap and direction

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE MOST OF THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excitement to learn new things - passion to learn and grow are key to success on this team
• Be a team player - help others, be respectful with each other, and do your part to make the work day fun and impactful
• 3+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
• Experience with one of the following is required:
• Identifying and overcoming performance bottlenecks
• Identifying and overcoming scalability challenges
• Working on a database or data warehouse
• Working on a scalable and distributed system in public or private clouds
• Hands on coding experience in C++ or Java is highly desirable

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
• Set the technical direction of multiple projects, and provide mentorship and guidance to other engineers.
• Build highly reliable software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
• Enhance the programmability surface of Snowflake and improve the experience of the data developer.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

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.