Principal Software Engineer II - Next-Gen Data Transformations

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Software Engineer II to architect the core data processing engine of the Snowflake Data & AI Cloud, focusing on building the systems that enable agentic workflows, data freshness, and autonomous agents to process exabytes of data at scale.

Requirements

• 14+ years of industry experience building database kernels, distributed systems internals, or large-scale data processing engines
• Mastery of Systems Programming: Deep expertise in stateful stream processing, incremental view maintenance, distributed transactions, and query execution internals
• Infrastructure-First Mindset: You are a systems builder, preferring to build the Operating System and Engine rather than the application or end-user pipeline
• Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record of solving complex problems in consensus, replication, and high-concurrency environments at cloud scale
• Ecosystem Awareness: A deep understanding of the architectural limitations of traditional tools like Airflow or dbt, and a vision for how to solve those challenges through native Snowflake system design
• Collaborative Leadership: Ability to work in a globally distributed environment, collaborate across product and engineering boundaries, and mentor senior and junior engineers alike
• Agent-Native Vision: A clear understanding of how the Engine must evolve to support autonomous agentic loops, including low-latency context injection and stateful memory for LLM-driven applications

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Relocation Assistance