Software Engineer - Backend

US-CA-Menlo Park💼 Full-time🗓 2026-02-06 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and build backend services and distributed platforms at scale for Snowflake's Data Cloud to enable secure data sharing between internal and external organizations.

Role type

Senior IC backend software engineer (cloud data platform)

Builds

Backend services, distributed platforms, and infrastructure for the Data Cloud

Domain

Cloud data platform, data governance, secure data sharing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Java, Python, C++, SQL, algorithms, data structures, large-scale system design, end-to-end product building

Preferred skills

database internals, data governance, payment systems

Responsibilities

Design and build features or distributed platforms at scale; drive initiatives for globally distributed infrastructure; collaborate with product managers and architects to drive end-to-end solutions; contribute to improving engineering processes and tooling

Seniority

Mid-level to Senior, hands-on IC

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About Snowflake

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 Snowf