We’re at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Our ‘get it done’ culture allows everyone at Snowflake to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration.
Snowflake started with a clear vision: develop a cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Snowflake developed an innovative new product with a built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. We are now a global, world-class organization with offices in more than a dozen countries and serving many more.
We’re hiring Backend Engineers to build a robust ecosystem of connectors!
In our area we develop in house connectors to connect with external systems and data warehouses. We are working to connect Snowflake with Fortune 500 companies - in the cloud. In this area you will be working on exposing API, blueprints and frameworks for other developers to create their own connectors.
AS A BACKEND ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
- Build connector applications that will target data warehouse ELT/BI builders, data engineers, application developers, data scientists, and third-party system connector builders.
- Build connector platform to build event more connectors.
- Create and own components such as:
- APIs
- Scheduling service
- ETL service
- Create open source artifacts and help grow the Snowflake developer community.
OUR IDEAL BACKEND ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
- 3+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems.
- Experience delivering drivers or developer SDKs built on top of RESTful web service APIs.
- Experience with designing systems with right level of observability, reliability, repairability designed to work 24/7.
- Familiarity with building high performance and scalable software in an internet scale distributed cloud environment.
- Fluency in one of programming languages like TypeScript, Python, Java.
- Familiarity with SQL.
- Interest in creating well thought out infrastructure and APIs.
- Solid problem solving skills.
- Great communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external developers.
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?
Building cutting edge cloud technologies is complex, and our engineering team surmounts the obstacles. As a member of our team, you will:
- Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.
- Learn about and contribute to:
- Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
- Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
- User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
- Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.