Software Engineer, Snowflake

• 2+ years of industry experience building and operating backend or platform services, including 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 multithreading, memory management, storage, and debugging performance and scale issues
• Proficiency in Java or a similar object-oriented language, such as Scala, Go, or C++, and experience working in large, shared codebases
• Experience building cloud-native services on at least one major cloud provider, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, using containers, CI/CD, and modern monitoring and 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

Desirable

• 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
• Contribute to 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
• Design, scope, and deliver small projects end to end - from requirements clarification and technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-up improvements - with guidance from senior engineers. Contribute to medium-sized projects with appropriate support
• Operate and support the components you build, including monitoring, on-call participation, incident response, and contributing to post-incident reviews and reliability improvements
• Apply solid engineering practices in your area, including 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 to clarify requirements, create technical plans, break work into milestones, and communicate progress and risks
• Analyze and improve performance, scalability, and reliability of existing services and pipelines, using metrics, profiling, and experimentation to guide optimizations
• Contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and team knowledge sharing, including mentoring interns or onboarding newer engineers
• Contribute to shared platform tooling and patterns, helping make it easier for Openflow teams to build, deploy, and operate high-quality connectors and runtimes