Staff Software Engineer – Dynamic Tables, Performance

Snowflake

Staff Engineer on Dynamic Tables performance team enhancing performance and scalability of incremental refreshes. Leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers to optimize data systems at Snowflake.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeBellevue • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $236,000 - $339,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsJava

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design and implementation of performance improvements to the incremental view maintenance engine, including multi-join incrementalization, novel incrementalization semantics, incremental window functions, and stacked operations.
Help define the roadmap for the incremental view maintenance engine, identifying key performance, scalability, and correctness milestones, prioritizing high-impact enhancements, and aligning technical investments with product and research goals.
Collaborate across teams to co-design improvements that benefit incremental pipelines.
Mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and raise the technical bar for the team through architectural leadership and high-quality code.
Contribute to the research and publication roadmap; the team has an active presence at top-tier database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB).

Requirements

What you’ll need

10 + years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data systems, with deep expertise in at least one of: query optimization, incremental/stream processing, or materialized view maintenance.
Strong computer science fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems design.
Proficiency in C++ or Java; experience with systems-level performance analysis (profiling, benchmarking, regression detection).
Demonstrated ability to lead multi-engineer, cross-team technical initiatives and translate ambiguous problem spaces into concrete engineering plans.
Experience operating systems at cloud scale (multi-tenant SaaS, petabyte-scale data, thousands of concurrent workloads).
Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to present complex technical trade-offs to both engineering and product audiences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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SaaS Snowflake is a cloud-based data-warehousing company that provides a platform for data storage, processing, and analytics. It allows businesses to store data in a centralized location and perform complex queries and analytics on that data efficiently. Snowflake is designed to handle a wide range of data workloads and can scale dynamically to meet the needs of growing businesses. Staff Software Engineer – Dynamic Tables, Performance 🔥 1 hour ago 🏢🏡 Bellevue – Hybrid 💵 $236k - $339.2k / year ⏰ Full Time 🔴 Lead 🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor Cloud Distributed Systems Java Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume + cover letter Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Lead the design and implementation of performance improvements to the incremental view maintenance engine, including multi-join incrementalization, novel incrementalization semantics, incremental window functions, and stacked operations.
Help define the roadmap for the incremental view maintenance engine, identifying key performance, scalability, and correctness milestones, prioritizing high-impact enhancements, and aligning technical investments with product and research goals.
Collaborate across teams to co-design improvements that benefit incremental pipelines.
Mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and raise the technical bar for the team through architectural leadership and high-quality code.
Contribute to the research and publication roadmap; the team has an active presence at top-tier database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB). 🎯 Requirements
10 + years of experience building and optimizing large-scale data systems, with deep expertise in at least one of: query optimization, incremental/stream processing, or materialized view maintenance.
Strong computer science fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems design.
Proficiency in C++ or Java; experience with systems-level performance analysis (profiling, benchmarking, regression detection).
Demonstrated ability to lead multi-engineer, cross-team technical initiatives and translate ambiguous problem spaces into concrete engineering plans.
Experience operating systems at cloud scale (multi-tenant SaaS, petabyte-scale data, thousands of concurrent workloads).
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Hard Skills & Tools

C++Javaquery optimizationincremental processingstream processingmaterialized view maintenancealgorithmsdata structuresdistributed systems designperformance analysis

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationarchitectural leadershipdesign reviewsproblem-solvingtechnical presentation