Staff Software Engineer
Core
Define and drive web performance strategy for Snowsight, optimizing large-scale React applications, build pipelines, and real-user monitoring systems.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Frontend Performance)
Builds
Real-user and synthetic monitoring pipelines, CI regression detection systems, performance dashboards, and alerting infrastructure. (via careerplan.io/jobs/22321-staff-software-engineer-at-snowflake)
Domain
Web Performance Engineering / Frontend Infrastructure
Required skills
JavaScript/TypeScript, React internals, browser performance profiling, build tooling optimization, real-user monitoring, synthetic monitoring, code splitting, tree-shaking, CDN caching, large-dataset rendering, virtualization, streaming, memory/CPU efficiency management.
Preferred skills
Server-side rendering, edge rendering, browser engine internals, web performance standards, observability platforms, data-intensive UIs.
Responsibilities
Define web performance strategy using Core Web Vitals; build and maintain monitoring pipelines; resolve systemic performance bottlenecks; optimize build and delivery performance; establish performance budgets and CI/CD guardrails; advise product teams on performance-aware architectures; mentor engineers and review critical performance paths.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence
