Senior Software Engineer - Notebooks
Senior Software Engineer · Senior · Full Time
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Role
What you'll do.
Snowflake is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive high-impact initiatives for their Notebooks product, a cutting-edge development interface in Snowsight. The ideal candidate will leverage advanced web technologies to enhance data science and engineering capabilities, collaborating across cross-functional teams to innovate and scale Snowflake's cloud-based data platform.
Responsibilities
- Product Development: Drive high-impact initiatives across Snowflake Notebooks product areas and technology stack
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Promote strong collaboration with design, product management, and sister teams including Machine Learning, Container Services, billing, and cloud infrastructure
- Technical Leadership: Contribute to product vision, drive team planning, and provide technical guidance
- Performance Optimization: Build scalable, high-performance web applications and systems
Qualifications
What we look for.
Technical
Web Development
Extensive experience with NodeJS, Java, and JavaScript (React)
Architecture Design
Deep understanding of modern web application design, API design patterns, security, performance, and scalability
Data Technologies
Knowledge of data development tools, data infrastructure, or machine learning
Education
Computer Science
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred
Experience
Professional Experience
7+ years of hands-on software development experience, including significant backend or full-stack development
Technical Leadership
Demonstrated experience as an architect or tech lead for high-impact customer-facing projects
Skills
Required
Web Technologies
Proficiency in NodeJS, Java, JavaScript, React
System Design
Advanced understanding of scalable application architecture
Preferred
Data Science Tools
Nice to haveExperience with data infrastructure and machine learning technologies
Cloud Technologies
Nice to haveKnowledge of cloud infrastructure and services
Tech stack
Languages
Frameworks
Databases
Tools
Other
Compensation
Pay and benefits.
Base·USD 200,000 – 287,500
Equity·Stock options
Benefits
Innovative Work Culture
Opportunity to work with AI-native technologies and redefine future work paradigms
Global Impact
Work with a world-class organization serving multiple countries
Process
Interview steps.
- 01
Initial Screening
Technical resume review and initial recruiter call
- 02
Technical Assessment
Coding challenge and system design evaluation
- 03
Technical Interviews
Multiple rounds of in-depth technical interviews with engineering team members
- 04
Leadership Interview
Final interview assessing cultural fit and leadership potential
Full posting
Original listing.
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 started with a clear vision: develop a cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Snowflake developed an innovative new product with a built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. We are now a global, world-class organization with offices in more than a dozen countries and serving many more.
Snowflake Notebooks is a development interface in Snowsight that offers an interactive, cell-based programming environment for Python and SQL. In Snowflake Notebooks, you can perform exploratory data analysis, develop machine learning models, and perform other data science and data engineering tasks all in one place.
To learn more about the capabilities of the Notebook products please visit https://www.snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/notebooks/
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER FOR SNOWFLAKE NOTEBOOKS, YOU WILL:
Drive high impact initiatives that span our product areas and tech stack including NodeJS, Java and JavaScript (React).
Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design, product management.
Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams such as Machine Learning, Container Services, billing and cloud infrastructure.
Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
Build for scale and high performance.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
7+ years hands-on software development experience, including significant experience in backend or full stack software development (internships count)
Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance and scale.
Knowledge of data development tools, data infrastructure, or ML is a plus.
Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects..
You go to work everyday striving to be the very best you can be. You're undaunted by ambiguity and are motivated to drive impact.
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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