Principal Software Engineer II, Data Platform (Streaming, Dynamic Tables and more)

On-site

Responsibilities

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.
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 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.

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

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
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.
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.
- 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.
Experience influencing technical direction across organizations - Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and executive audiences. DESIRABLE -