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, Storage

Location: Bellevue, WA

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.

About the Team

Snowflake's mission is to mobilize the world's data by building the greatest data and applications platform. Not just of the cloud era, but in the history of computing. To support this mission, the Storage team focuses on building the world's best storage platform. That means enhancing value-added services such as disaster recovery and AI integrations, and providing enterprise-grade, cloud-native storage for containerized workloads, especially in the fast-growing AI space.

We are seeking an outstanding Staff Software Engineer with a passion for large scale databases and distributed systems to help drive our continued growth. In this role, you'll connect customer needs with the business and technology, and act as a technical leader who helps the team carry out its vision.

We are at an inflection point as we continue to scale the footprint and expand the TAM of Snowflake through new and Neo Clouds onboarding, changes in the workloads, and need to simplify in order to enable Snowflake customers to unlock their full data potential.

AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL

Translate business and customer needs into technical designs that deliver new capabilities to existing and new Snowflake customers

Drive innovation in how table data is stored, accessed, and processed in the Snowflake cloud

Architect, design, and implement new systems and solutions that advance the Snowflake Data Infrastructure platform

Collaborate closely with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and cross-functional partners to design and build new technologies that go directly into our customers' hands

Provide technical leadership for your team, setting direction on design, code quality, and operational excellence

Mentor and coach engineers on your team and across partner teams

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE MOST OF THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS

10+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale, durable distributed systems in production

An excellent team player who is committed to helping everyone around them reach their potential and grow

Alignment with the Snowflake values

A proven track record of leading and delivering large, complex projects across multiple teams in the storage space (object storage, data warehouses, SQL/NoSQL databases, distributed file systems, etc.)