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.

Our teams develops in-house connectors to connect with external systems and data warehouses. We are working to connect Snowflake with Fortune 500 companies - in the cloud. In this area you will be working on exposing API, blueprints and frameworks for other developers to create their own connectors.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Design and develop data integration and processing applications. These applications replicate data from various data sources (including relational databases, saas, data streams) into Snowflake, following CDC patterns.
Develop and extend a robust connector platform to standardise and accelerate the development of connectors, either developed by Snowflake or by third parties. Typical example includes developing a scheduling service ensuring timely execution of tasks and optimal resource allocation.
Optimize performance of the ingestion, meet with customers & troubleshoot issues and secure data transfer from external systems.
Collaborate with teams across the organization and roles.
Create design documents and present them to architects and other stakeholders, including company founders.
Lead and mentor a group of engineers
Coordinate synchronous and asynchronous communication to ensure goals are met.
Collaborate with PMs and customers to understand business requirements, and translate them into connector application solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems.
Experience with high performance and scalable software in an internet scale distributed cloud environment.
Fluency in Java.
Experience with SQL. Good understanding of relational databases.
Interest in creating well thought out infrastructure and APIs.
Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills, especially in a cloud environment.
Great communication skills, both verbal and written, and an interest in working with a diverse set of peers and external developers.

WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

Building cutting edge cloud technologies is complex, and our engineering team surmounts the obstacles. As a member of our team, you will:

Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.
Learn about and contribute to:
- Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
- Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
- User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

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

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