We’re hiring talented Senior Software Engineers to join the Snowflake Developer Ecosystem team! This position will work directly with our engineering team to build a centralized API Platform for Snowflake product teams to develop and publish first-class APIs with standardization and governance. We need smart engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly – and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies!

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Build a family of first-class APIs that provide a language-agnostic non-SQL interface for all Snowflake resources.
• Build a family of thin client language SDKs and libraries for management operations of Snowflake resources across workloads.
• Build a high performance, scalable and secure distributed server runtime that connects the REST APIs with the Snowflake data cloud.

OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 7+ years industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
• Fluency in Java or Python.
• Familiarity with development in a Linux environment.
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• Ability to work on-site in our San Mateo office.

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• SQL or other database technologies including internal design and implementation.
• Experience or knowledge in designing and building customer-facing distributed web services and APIs (e.g. REST, RPC, GraphQL)
  
  

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.