Senior Software Engineer - Notebooks

Senior Software Engineer · Senior · Full Time

US-CA-Menlo ParkUSD 200k – 288k4mo ago
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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 have

    Experience with data infrastructure and machine learning technologies

  • Cloud Technologies

    Nice to have

    Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and services

Tech stack

Languages

JavaScriptJavaPython

Frameworks

ReactNodeJS

Databases

Snowflake

Tools

SnowsightNotebooks

Other

Cloud Infrastructure

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.

  1. 01

    Initial Screening

    Technical resume review and initial recruiter call

  2. 02

    Technical Assessment

    Coding challenge and system design evaluation

  3. 03

    Technical Interviews

    Multiple rounds of in-depth technical interviews with engineering team members

  4. 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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