Senior Software Engineer - Engineering Systems - Developer Experience

Where Data Does More. Join the Snowflake team.

We’re at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Snowflake started with a clear vision: develop a cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Data Cloud allows sharing live data in governed and secure ways so our customers can solve their business problems. We’re building a thriving collaborative ecosystem on Snowflake that is scalable and self-reinforcing to maximize data collaboration potential.

Our Engineering Systems team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to bring structure and excellence to how engineers at Snowflake work with Python. In this role, you will be deeply invested in the Python ecosystem, understanding its evolution, and passionate about enabling all engineers—including those primarily writing Java and C++—to be productive with Python. Working with a collaborative, world-class team, you'll establish Python best practices at enterprise scale. Whether you're motivated by solving intricate technical problems or creating order from complexity, this role offers meaningful opportunities to make a substantial impact.

At Snowflake, we know having great development tools that are customized to the needs of our engineers is critical to our success. If you're interested in helping other engineers be more productive, we would love to talk to you!

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL:

• Design and build platforms, tools, and best practices to significantly enhance the Python developer experience at Snowflake.

• Drive initiatives to improve Python development workflows and infrastructure.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across multiple language ecosystems to ensure seamless Python integration into the developer experience.

• Contribute to defining and improving Python engineering processes, tooling, and best practices.

• Engage with the Python community to integrate cutting-edge practices and technologies.

• Design and build features, and/or distributed platforms at scale.

• Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions.

• Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.

• Excellent fundamental computer science skills, deep knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

• Strong Python expertise with experience building and maintaining large-scale systems.

• Familiarity with modern Python features like pathlib, dataclasses, and pattern matching.

• Experience with Python type hints and static analysis tools for code quality.

• Experience with distributed systems, cloud computing, and Linux operating systems.

• Passion for understanding customer needs and building solutions that deliver exceptional end-to-end experiences.

• Passion for building internal engineering systems and developer productivity tools.

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:

• Experience with python performance optimization, packaging, and dependency management.

• Experience with SQL.

• Experience with Go, C++, or Java.

• Experience driving transformative cross-organization initiatives.

• Experience building programming languages, compilers, platform libraries, SDKs, or language run-times.

• Deep experience working with internal or external developer tools, developer productivity, or engineering systems.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

Compensation Range: $222K - $339.2K