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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. We are looking for a Principal Solution Engineer who is accustomed to solving customer’s most complex problems and closing large deals. In this role you will work directly with the sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles, provide compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately close business. As a Snowflake Solution Engineer you must share our passion about reinventing the database space, thrive in a dynamic environment and have the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get things done. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop with technical audiences. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: Present Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation Immerse yourself in the ever-evolving industry, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them. Coll

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. ABOUT THE ROLE Snowpark is how developers run distributed Python, Java, and Scala workloads directly on the Snowflake platform — securely, at scale, and without moving data. It is one of Snowflake's most differentiated and fastest-growing products, and as workloads become agent-driven — where Python is the default — its growth is only accelerating. Having expanded from structured data into semi-structured and ETL workloads, Snowpark is now entering its most exciting phase: unstructured, multimodal, and agentic AI data processing. We are looking for a Principal Product Manager to own Snowpark and lead this next chapter. This is a general-manager-style role: you will own the strategy, growth, and go-to-market for a critical product line, acting as an entrepreneur with the autonomy to propose and launch multiple 0→1 bets on top of an already highly successful product. You will be the most senior PM on the product, with a clear path to lead the Snowpark PM team as you demonstrate impact. AS A PRINCIPAL PM AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Define the Mission: Own the end-to-end, multi-year strategy and roadmap for Snowpark as the standard for distributed Python, Java, and Scala processing on the data platform. Lead the 0→1: Drive the expansion into unstructured/multimodal data processing

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. We are looking for a Principal Solution Engineer who will serve as a dedicated trusted advisor and proactive strategic technology partner for our customers in Financial Services. In this role you will work directly with C-level executives, data leaders, and engineering teams to influence the data, AI and technology roadmap while driving expanded consumption and adoption of Snowflake's AI Data Cloud platform. You will also serve as the technical customer advocate internally at Snowflake, working closely with our product managers and technical executive sponsors to ensure customer needs drive product innovation. As a Snowflake Principal Solution Engineer you must excel at translating complex technical concepts into compelling business value propositions that resonate with executive stakeholders. You thrive in strategic account environments, have exceptional C-level communication skills, and possess the gravitas to influence technology roadmaps at the highest organizational levels. You are equally comfortable presenting to boards and CEOs as you are collaborating with engineering teams and advocating for customer requirements with our internal product organization. In this role you will get to: Present Snowflake's AI Data Cloud technology and strategic vision to C-level execut

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 Program Manager, you will deliver large projects or programs and drive new service opportunities, working with both customers as well as internal stakeholders. You will be the overall Program Lead for a large customer acting as a trusted advisor to C-Suite and/or Executive Sponsor of the Program, collaborate with internal stakeholders to craft the vision, develop the strategy, build the roadmap of use cases, build program/project plan, proactively mitigate risks and execute on delivering customer value. AS A PRINCIPAL PROGRAM MANAGER, YOU WILL: Be a program management expert on all aspects of the Snowflake implementation and variety of project and services types, bringing multi-threaded initiatives together in an efficient manner Deliver Fixed Fee and highly scoped projects on time. Own project governance for budget and revenue reconciliation. Lead large data migrations and code conversion efforts. Able to successfully drive to scope clarity with project teams and customer stakeholders. Familiar with Agentic AI and modern AI technology implementation. Be the driving force in - project execution, use case identification, roadmapping, risk analysis for the customer Drive planning and all aspects of execution of the program plan, working collaboratively with all

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. Principal Technical Architect - AI/ML LEAD. STRATEGIZE. TRANSFORM. SUMMARY: Recognized expert and strategic technical advisor resolving critical, wide-ranging design matters for legacy modernization and Generative AI. WHY THIS ROLE? You act as the technical "North Star" for high-stakes migrations. You exercise wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments with high business impact. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Develop reusable solution patterns, global reference architectures, and practice-wide white papers. Modernize legacy stacks (Netezza, Teradata, Exadata) into Snowflake AI workloads using deep architectural knowledge. Act as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders, bridging business strategy with AI execution. Solve for LLM robustness, including managing prompt safety, hallucinations, and latency at enterprise scale. Gen AI Robustness: Architect enterprise-grade guardrails for LLMs, ensuring safety and performance. Legacy Transformation: Facilitate high-complexity data migrations from on-prem legacy systems into AI-ready cloud environments. Strategic Risk Management: Determine technical approaches for assignments that impact regional or global design success. SNOWFLAKE-NATIVE TECH STACK: Vector Data Types, Snowflake Cortex, Advanced LLM

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. Streamlit in Snowflake (SiS) is our flagship app development platform, enabling data engineers, analysts, and developers to build and deploy interactive, data-driven applications directly within Snowflake. As Principal Engineer for the Streamlit in Snowflake team, you will be the top technical voice shaping how millions of users build and deploy apps on Snowflake's data platform. This role requires a rare combination: deep hands-on engineering expertise in Python/container runtimes, a systems architect's instinct for platform design, and the organizational influence to drive cross-team programs. You will define how SiS evolves from its container-native SPCS runtime and embedding/iframe SDK, to its developer experience, performance at scale, and integration with Snowflake's broader AI and data ecosystem. AS THE PRINCIPAL ENGINEER FOR STREAMLIT IN SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Define and own the architectural vision for the SiS platform spanning the SPCS container runtime, the warehouse runtime, the embedding SDK, developer tooling, and the Snowsight integration layer. Drive the platform's evolution toward its next-generation capabilities building on publicly shipping features like chromeless viewer URLs and IdP integration, and shaping the architectural direction for areas still in de

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. At Snowflake, our People team is the backbone of an extraordinary employee experience. As a Principal Integrations Developer on the People Systems team, you'll design, build, and maintain the integrations that connect our people systems — ensuring seamless, secure, and scalable data flow across our global ecosystem as Snowflake continues to grow. This is a hybrid role based in our Dublin, CA or Menlo Park, CA offices with 3 days a week in-office attendance required. WHAT YOU'LL DO: Design, build, test, and maintain Workday integrations using technologies such as Workday Studio, EIB, Core Connectors, and Workday Web Services (SOAP/REST) Partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable integration solutions Provide production support for integrations, including monitoring, troubleshooting failures, performing root cause analysis, and implementing fixes Develop and maintain inbound and outbound integrations between Workday and third-party systems (e.g., payroll, benefits, finance, IT systems) Support data pipelines between Workday and our own instance of Snowflake, including the migration to Workday Zero Copy Data cloud Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and security across integrations, adhering to gove

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 about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer for our AI team. Our team delivers an AI Functions product that is the key Cortex Platform feature used by Snowflake customers. We're delivering scalable, governed, managed, powerful and flexible transformation primitives that allow customers to build AI ETL pipelines on all data. We focus on solving the hard research and engineering problems required to make high quality multi-cloud service work. If you enjoy designing and building the AI services that run reliably at scale, this is the team for you. AS PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN AI & ML YOU WILL: Build customer facing AI Functions portfolio of products Design and implement highly scalable distributed platforms within the global Snowflake platform. Participate in decision-making processes on technical or business issues. Collaborate with engineers across teams to help deliver cross-functional initiatives. Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regardi

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. We are hiring a Principal Engineer II to architect the core data processing engine of the Snowflake Data & AI Cloud. At Snowflake, we believe that high-performance, unified compute fabrics are the indispensable building blocks for Agentic AI. Autonomous agents require more than just models; they require a high-fidelity, low-latency state layer to reason, act, and persist context. This role is not about building traditional data processing pipelines or legacy ETL/ELT workflows; it is about building the core distributed systems and atomic primitives that make those agentic workflows possible. In this role, you will be a lead architect of the Snowflake Data Transformation Engine. You will design and implement the fundamental transformations infrastructure—Stateful Stream Processing Engines, Incremental View Maintenance Engine, Materialization Internals, and the Distributed Orchestration Fabric. Our solid foundation supporting the seamless transition for enterprises between batch and streaming through Dynamic Tables, Streams & Tasks, and DBT Projects is the starting point. Your architectural work will extend the reach of the core engine to accelerate and support the massive scale of the Snowpark and Spark ecosystems. You are building the systems that allow both data eng

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. Company Overview We are building the next generation of cloud security infrastructure, focusing on advanced Data Exfiltration Protection (DXP) and unified Data Movement Policies (DMP). Our mission is to provide seamless, context-aware security that protects sensitive data without hindering developer velocity. We are looking for a visionary Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy and architecture for our Data Movement and Perimeter control systems. Role Summary As a Principal Engineer in the Data Protection group, you will be the technical lead for the Data Exfiltration Protection (DXP) and Data Movement Policy (DMP) initiatives. You will bridge the gap between high-level security policy and low-level system enforcement, ensuring that our perimeter controls are robust, scalable, and deeply integrated with context-aware access policy frameworks. You will be responsible for the architectural evolution of our egress control systems, moving from simple IP-based rules to sophisticated, content-aware, and identity-driven data movement governance. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - IDENTITY, DATA SECURITY AND TRUST AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Architectural Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of the Data Movement Policy (DMP) framework, ensuring it can handle complex

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. Principal Data Cloud Architect - SI Partners We are seeking a highly experienced and results-driven AI/ML focused Principal Data Cloud Architect to join our Partner Solution Engineering (PSE) team. Our mission is to empower System Integrator (SI) partners to rapidly achieve technical wins and successful production deployments of AI/ML solutions on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud, enables teams to seamlessly run analytical workflows, develop agentic apps, and train models using both structured and unstructured data. With over 4,000 customers leveraging our gen AI and ML technology weekly, we are at the forefront of AI innovation. This role is crucial in accelerating AI/ML customer journey technical wins and production deployments being implemented by SI partners. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL PERFORM: Strategic Account Alignment with top accounts for SI partners (Focus on Acceleration): Unlock High-Impact Customer Journeys: Identify and prioritize AI/ML customer journeys for SI partner top accounts, focusing on quick wins and high consumption, informed by your understanding of SI partner needs. Expedited POCs and RFPs: Provide support for partners during RFI/RFP processes and POCs, ensuring rapid turnaround and successful outcomes, informed by your SI propo

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. The Product Security team ensures that Snowflake products are built and shipped with the highest level of security. Our team drives the security posture of Snowflake products and is responsible for embedding security into every stage of the product lifecycle, from design through deployment and beyond. We design and build frameworks, systems and services that keep Snowflake secure. As a Principal Software Engineer II on the Product Security team, you will be the senior technical authority for Product Security and play a critical leadership role in shaping and advancing Snowflake’s security. This is a unique opportunity to define and influence our long-term security strategy and have a direct impact on the security of the Snowflake platform and the trust of our customers. You will operate across organizational boundaries, guiding major security initiatives, influencing architectural decisions at the highest levels, setting the technical direction for the organization, and ensuring consistent security excellence across all product teams while working closely with business leaders to advance Snowflake’s business. The role requires deep expertise in security, software engineering, distributed systems, software infrastructure, AI/ML, applied cryptography, threat modeling and clou

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. We are looking for a Principal Solution Engineer for the UK market who can solve our customer’s most complex problems. In this role you will work directly with the account sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to best support them in their evaluation and ultimately help our customers choose Snowflake as their solution. As a Snowflake Solution Engineer you share our passion for solving complex data challenges and helping organizations to get the most out of their data assets. Our technical landscape is ever evolving and you are keen to learn new skills and put them into practice on real world challenges. You are able to translate features and functions into solutions that solve business problems, in conversations with technical or business teams, with end users or executives. In this role you will get to: Present Snowflake’s technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation Create and develop technical champions in your accounts to drive deals and achieve a technical win Be at the cutting ed

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. We are the Snowflake Metadata team. We own Snowflake’s metadata systems that make it easy for customers to query, modify and manage their petabyte-scale data. We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake’s query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities. We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills. Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for our Snowgrid and Data Sharing teams. Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects. Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them. Mentor and grow junior engineers. Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services. Ensure operational readiness of