Snowflake

Engineering

SeniorSoftwareEngineer-DataEngineeringExperience

CA$245–295k Toronto, Ontario, Canada FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer - Data Engineering Experience at Snowflake. Skills: Data Engineering, Software Development, Web Applications. Drive high impact initiatives. Deliver features requiring close coordination”

What You'll Achieve.

accelerate your impact; deliver results; redefine the future of how work gets done; shape the future of data engineering; building elegant web applications and frameworks; enable and accelerate our growth

Industry & Context.

Engineering
Problems you'll solve

solve problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years hands-on software development experience, significant experience in full stack software development, Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance, scale, written, verbal, and technical communication skills

Nice to Have

Knowledge of database internals, SQL is a big plus

What You'll Do.

Drive high impact initiatives

Deliver features requiring close coordination

Build for scale and high performance

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Promote collaboration within a cross functional team; partner closely with embedded product managers and designers

Communication Scope

written, verbal, and technical communication skills

Process & Methodology

drive team planning

Full Job Description

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 Data Engineering Experience (DEX) team and help shape the future of data engineering at Snowflake. We are a mature, highly diverse team dedicated to crafting exceptional data ingestion, pipeline authoring, and observability experiences for our customers. If you're passionate about building elegant web applications and frameworks in a collaborative, supportive environment, then we invite you to be part of our team's success story. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER YOU WILL: - Drive high impact initiatives that span our product areas and tech stack including Java, Python, and golang. - Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team and partner closely with embedded product managers and designers. - Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams - Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning. - Build for scale and high performance - Mentor, coach, and empower more junior team members OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE: - 7+ years hands-on software development experience, including significant experience in full stack software development. - Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance and scale. - Knowledge of database internals and SQL is a big plus.

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