Senior Software Engineer, Data Transformation

Snowflake

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. As a Principal Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will be a technical anchor — setting direction, solving the hardest engineering problems, and elevating the entire team. You will work at the intersection of systems design, long-term architecture, and real-world engineering execution. In this specific role, you will lead the evolution of our declarative data pipelines, focusing on streaming ingestion and transformations. WHAT YOU'LL DO * Drive the technical strategy and architecture for key Data Platform initiatives, focusing heavily on real-time data movement and incremental processing. * Lead design reviews and set engineering standards across teams. * Identify and resolve high-impact technical challenges and systemic bottlenecks to reduce latency and improve the efficiency of dynamic tables at cloud scale. * Mentor and grow senior engineers; raise the engineering bar. * Partner closely with product and infrastructure leadership on roadmap and direction. * Continuous hands-on technical deliverables in the most critical areas. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR * 14+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems. * Demonstrated track record of defining and delivering platform-scale technical initiatives. * Expert-level knowledge of streaming and/or batch data systems (Flink, Spark, or equivalent), with specialized knowledge in incremental materialization algorithms. * Strong systems thinking — ability to reason across layers of complexity (infra, storage, compute, API). * A passion for engaging directly with customers to gain insight and inspiration * Experience influencing technical direction across organizations * Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and executive audiences. DESIRABLE * Experience with AI-augmented development practices and integrating LLM-based tooling into engineering workflows. * Familiarity with Snowflake platform internals or cloud-native data systems. * Experience with metadata systems, query optimization, or data catalog infrastructure. * Contributions to open source, such as top-level Apache projects 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

Snowflake

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. There is only one AI Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the AI Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. In fact, Snowflake processes over 6 billion queries every day, supporting countless businesses in making data-driven decisions. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow. We’re looking for an exceptional and experienced Senior Engineering Manager to manage and grow the Snowflake query processing team in Berlin, Germany. The team is critical to Snowflake's success, responsible for building new SQL features and customer-facing functionality, developing novel query optimization and query execution techniques for industry-leading performance, and building a database system that's highly parallel, efficient and fault-tolerant. AS AN SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO: * Lead a team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of our highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system * Grow the team by recruiting, interviewing, and hiring new team members in a competitive talent market * Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship, coaching and guidance * Lead and participate in technical, design and product discussions relating to your team * Translate product requirements into actionable engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed * Collaborate with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing and project schedules, including teams across different time zones * Effectively  shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and respond to customer feedback and production issues * Use your strong technical foundation to reliably deliver complex projects while maintaining  a high-quality bar * Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE: * 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience * 5+ years of engineering management experience * A demonstrated track record of successful recruiting and leading technical teams in a competitive talent market * Rock-solid engineering fundamentals, with query processing experience (compile time and/or execution time) and related database technologies * Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to handle complex technical challenges * Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams * Outstanding written and oral English language skills, necessary for clear documentation and presentations BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING: * Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance optimization and schema design * Background in database internals or large-scale data processing systems like Hadoop or Spark * Prior experience running database internal engineering teams, showcasing technical depth * Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs, indicating project management skills * German language skills, beneficial for collaborating with local teams and stakeholders WHY BE A QUERY PROCESSING MANAGER IN BERLIN? As a leader in our team you will: * Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars, building an industry-leading cloud data platform that customers love * Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow both technically and as a leader, with clear pathways for advancement * Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly parallel, robust, and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries every day * Play a key role in shaping the future of data processing and contributing to Snowflake's innovation 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

Snowflake

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. Snowflake is building the platform that teams rely on to make data useful, reliable, and ready for the age of AI. As customers shift from batch analytics to real-time systems and intelligent applications, streaming is becoming core to how data is produced, consumed, and acted upon. We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead Snowflake’s Streaming Platform. This role is at the center of the real-time data shift, defining how data in motion becomes data that teams can trust, analyze, and use to power AI-driven workflows. Streaming is the backbone for modern applications, operational analytics, and Agent to Agent pipelines. If you are passionate about distributed systems, care about craft, and want to work on problems that matter at massive scale, this is a rare opportunity to build something foundational. What You Will Do * Product Vision: Own the product direction, strategy, and roadmap for Snowflake’s streaming capabilities. * Execution: Translate complex customer problems into clear product bets and successfully shipped features. * Engineering Partnership: Collaborate closely with engineering on system design, trade-offs, and execution. * User Focus: Spend time with users to understand what is broken, what is missing, and what matters most. * Design & GTM: Partner with design to ensure advanced workflows are intuitive, and work with GTM teams to launch products that resonate with customers. * Alignment: Drive cross-functional alignment across ingestion, platform, analytics, and AI teams. * Prioritization: Make rigorous prioritization calls grounded in impact, scale, and customer value. What We Are Looking For * Experience building products in data infrastructure, distributed systems, or real-time platforms. * Strong understanding of streaming systems and event-driven architectures. * Experience working with Flink or similar systems is a strong plus. * Ability to engage deeply with engineers and reason about architecture and design choices. * Comfort working in ambiguity and shaping direction from first principles. * Strong communication skills and a practical, customer-first mindset. * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required. * Master’s degree is a plus. Why Snowflake Snowflake is where the world’s hardest data problems are tackled. You will work on systems that run at scale for thousands of customers, with a real impact on how modern companies operate and build AI-powered applications. You will join a team that values clarity over complexity, speed with responsibility, and technical excellence. Most importantly, you will have the space and influence to build a platform that customers genuinely depend on. If you enjoy working on hard problems and want to shape how data moves and powers intelligence, we’d love to talk. Snowflake is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. 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