Senior Software Engineer – Snowflake Streaming

Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer responsible for designing and maintaining Snowflake's streaming ingestion platform. Working on improving service reliability and collaborating with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeBellevue • Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsJava

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain core components of Snowflake's streaming ingestion platform
Improve service reliability, scalability, and latency under high-throughput production workloads
Debug and resolve incidents in a distributed, multi-tenant cloud service
Contribute to the design and evolution of streaming APIs, SDKs, and server-side protocols
Write comprehensive tests including unit, integration, and chaos/fault-injection scenarios
Collaborate with partner teams (storage, query, compute) on cross-cutting platform concerns
Participate in code reviews, on-call rotations, and architecture discussions

Requirements

What you’ll need

3–5 years of software engineering experience on large-scale distributed systems or cloud services
Strong proficiency in Java or C++
Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts: consistency, fault tolerance, replication, and backpressure
Experience building or operating high-throughput, low-latency services in production
Strong debugging skills across the stack — from application logic to network and storage layers
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and multi-tenant service design

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsDebugging SkillsUnit TestingIntegration TestingFault Injection TestingStreaming APIsSDK DevelopmentServer-Side ProtocolsMulti-Tenant Service Design

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem SolvingCommunication