Lead Junior Software Development Engineer in Germany

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

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 desig