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Senior Software Engineer- AI Data Collaboration

California, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeSenior$200,000–$287,500 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

Snowflake is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Internal Collaboration team to build software for sharing data, applications, and AI models within organizations without data movement. This role involves leading initiatives, innovating secure and reliable software, architecting systems for the data product lifecycle, and designing highly available distributed platforms. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in large-scale distributed systems, strong programming skills in Java, Scala, or C++, experience with AI-driven development, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and a deep understanding of distributed systems concepts. Familiarity with marketplace applications and data governance is also preferred.

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.
The Internal Collaboration team builds software to share data, apps, and AI models across different business units, regions, and clouds within a single organization—without moving or copying the data. The team builds the Internal Marketplace as a data product storefront for our users.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - INTERNAL COLLABORATION YOU WILL:

  • Lead highly impactful initiatives around Snowflake Data Collaboration and Internal Marketplace
  • Innovate and build highly secured and reliable software to allow customers to be data-driven.
  • Architect and build systems that enable our customers to manage every critical aspect of the data product lifecycle, including curation, discovery, governance, policy configurations, certification, publishing, observability.
  • Design and implement highly available distributed platforms within the global Snowflake.
  • Revolutionize how organizations distribute, consume, and use data as a strategic business asset.
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - INTERNAL COLLABORATION, WILL HAVE:

  • 7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale applications and distributed systems in production.
  • Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, or C++ with an emphasis on performance and reliability.
  • Experience with AI-driven/first software development
  • Experience building cloud applications and working with public cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Deep understanding of distributed transaction processing, concurrency control, and high-performance query engines.
  • Familiarity with Marketplace applications and product lifecycle management
  • Familiarity with data governance, security, and access control models in distributed data systems.
  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

ABOUT INTERNAL COLLABORATION:

  • Learn more about Snowflake Internal Marketplace:
  • Learn more about Snowflake Applications and Collaboration
  • 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
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

  • The estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $287,500.
  • Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.
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    Design a system for managing a distributed consensus algorithm.

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    How would you architect a scalable platform for processing data from millions of IoT devices in real-time?

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    Design a system for database synchronization

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    Design a solution for managing large-scale data migrations in a distributed environment.

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    Design a web interface for Database

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