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Staff Software Engineer - Snowhouse

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-CA-Menlo Park$236k - $339.2kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer on the Snowhouse Foundation team, responsible for building a globally distributed data warehouse, leading technical strategy, and delivering scalable data infrastructure while leveraging AI-assisted engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on guidance and code reviews, develop other engineers and raise the quality bar, establish engineering best practices across the team and contribute to the team strategy and future of the platform.
  • Technical Execution: Design and implement highly available distributed platforms, pipelines, and data infrastructure components to scale global data processing. Solve hard problems, use AI-assisted engineering responsibly to improve velocity and quality.
  • Problem-space Ownership: Lead cross-functional engineering projects from idea inception through implementation and production deployment across multiple quarters and teams. Develop a deep understanding of the underlying user and company needs.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, senior ICs, data science teams, and business units to deliver end-to-end data platform capabilities.
  • Platform Ownership: Own or co-own the reliability, observability, SLOs, capacity, and durable remediation goals for their problem space.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of software development experience in distributed systems, with a strong focus on data warehouse or data infrastructure engineering.
  • Deep experience developing resilient, large-scale services in public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Demonstrated proficiency in distributed systems architecture and database fundamentals, with a track record of solving complex system design challenges.
  • Excellent technical communication and collaborative problem-solving skills across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Familiarity with data or ML orchestration systems across diverse architectures (bonus).
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).

Skills

Required:Technical LeadershipDistributed systems designData warehouse / data infrastructureCloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)Cross-functional collaboration
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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