Snowflake
Senior Software Engineer - Warehouse UX
$200K–$288K
US-CA-Menlo Park · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 4 to 7 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Builds and operates backend distributed systems that power Snowflake Warehouses, including warehouse features, billing, usability, and production reliability.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, deploy, and operate warehouse backend systems across the software lifecycle.
- Independently deliver medium-sized projects and contribute to larger cross-team initiatives.
- Improve warehouse reliability, scalability, performance, and operational health; participate in on-call and production issue response.
What they ask for
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong programming, debugging, and software design skills in one or more modern languages.
- Experience building and operating backend or distributed systems in production.
- Experience with on-call, production support, or incident response for live systems.
Nice to have
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- Experience with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data platforms, large-scale backend services, billing, metering, or control plane systems.
Pay
$200K – $287.5K (base salary; currency not stated)
AI focus
Apply AI-assisted workflows where they improve engineering leverage, speed, or quality without compromising judgment.
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