# Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion at Snowflake > Hybrid · United States · Staff · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Asnowflake%3A35dfd8bf-a458-4c9c-a5d2-0b5d487b9640 (read 2026-11-04). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Snowflake](https://alderhq.app/companies/snowflake) - Location text: US-WA-Bellevue - Where it can be done from (inferred): Hybrid · United States (evidence: "Location: US-WA-Bellevue") - Posted: 2026-10-13 (22 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/35dfd8bf-a458-4c9c-a5d2-0b5d487b9640 - Skills listed (inferred): Java, C++, Kafka, AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, Distributed systems ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: $236k–$339k per year (from the listing's pay field) - Market band for similar posted roles (Seattle, n 70): p25 $213k, median $224k, p75 $258k - H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 292, median offered wage $162k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance)) ## Description (the employer's text) At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. ### Staff Software Engineer – File Ingestion (Customer-Facing Services) ### Build the Future of the AI Data Cloud Snowflake’s File Ingestion team owns the core engines behind COPY INTO and Snowpipe — the primary arteries landing customer data into the AI Data Cloud at hundreds of petabytes per quarter. We are expanding our core mission to build next-generation, external-facing ingestion services that directly expose file-ingest capabilities to external platforms, partner ecosystems, and customer applications. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the architectural vision and execution for these mission-critical, customer-facing services. You will operate at the intersection of high-throughput distributed systems, API platform design, and direct customer feature delivery, defining how enterprise data seamlessly flows into Snowflake at global scale. ### What You’ll Do Drive Technical Vision & Architecture: Define the multi-year architecture and technical strategy for high-throughput, external-facing ingestion services and APIs across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). Deliver Customer-Facing Innovations: Lead the end-to-end execution of enterprise-grade external features, ensuring low-latency data landing, high availability, and seamless ecosystem integration (e.g., Snowpark Connect, partner connectors). Set Technical Direction: Author foundational design documents, establish technical standards for reliability, security, and scalability, and lead high-stakes architectural reviews across engineering orgs. Lead Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with Principal Architects, Product Management, Security, and external developer platforms to translate customer requirements into resilient system architecture. Elevate Engineering Excellence: Mentor and sponsor Senior, Mid-level, and Junior engineers; raise the bar for system design, code quality, testing methodologies, and operational maturity. Direct Customer & Strategic Impact: Engage with enterprise customer engineering teams to solve complex integration challenges, debug production edge cases at scale, and turn direct customer feedback into core platform capabilities. ### What We’re Looking For 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud-native infrastructure in production. Proven track record of architectural leadership, having successfully taken complex, customer-facing services or external APIs from initial concept to General Availability (GA) and global scale. Expert proficiency in Java or C++ (strong preference for engineers comfortable working across both systems-level C++ and managed service Java frameworks). Deep expertise in external API design, cloud service orchestration, and building resilient, multi-tenant customer-facing endpoints. Deep domain knowledge in at least one of the following: high-throughput ingestion pipelines, distributed query execution engines, messaging/streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Pulsar), or database internals. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to drive technical consensus across cross-functional leadership, product partners, and external technical stakeholders. BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. ### Bonus Points Experience building and scaling external developer platforms, SDKs, or public SaaS APIs serving external consumers. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Asnowflake%3A35dfd8bf-a458-4c9c-a5d2-0b5d487b9640 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.