Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Systems, Developer Experience

Snowflake

full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington

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💰 $222,000 - $339,200 per year

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About the role

Design and build platforms, tools, and best practices to significantly enhance the Python developer experience at Snowflake.
Drive initiatives to improve Python development workflows and infrastructure.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams across multiple language ecosystems to ensure seamless Python integration into the developer experience.
Contribute to defining and improving Python engineering processes, tooling, and best practices.
Engage with the Python community to integrate cutting-edge practices and technologies.
Design and build features, and/or distributed platforms at scale.
Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure.
Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions.
Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
Excellent fundamental computer science skills, deep knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
Strong Python expertise with experience building and maintaining large-scale systems.
Familiarity with modern Python features like pathlib, dataclasses, and pattern matching.
Experience with Python type hints and static analysis tools for code quality.
Experience with distributed systems, cloud computing, and Linux operating systems.
Passion for understanding customer needs and building solutions that deliver exceptional end-to-end experiences.
Passion for building internal engineering systems and developer productivity tools.
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.