# Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion **Company**: Snowflake **Location**: Bellevue, WA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: staff **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $236K – $339.2K **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/35dfd8bf-a458-4c9c-a5d2-0b5d487b9640?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_51a09fda-890 ## Description 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. ## Staff Software Engineer – File Ingestion (Customer-Facing Services) ### Build the Future of the AI Data Cloud Snowflake’s File Ingestion team owns the core engines behind COPY INTO and Snowpipe , the primary arteries landing customer data into the AI Data Cloud at hundreds of petabytes per quarter. We are expanding our core mission to build next-generation, external-facing ingestion services that directly expose file-ingest capabilities to external platforms, partner ecosystems, and customer applications. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead the architectural vision and execution for these mission-critical, customer-facing services. You will operate at the intersection of high-throughput distributed systems, API platform design, and direct customer feature delivery, defining how enterprise data seamlessly flows into Snowflake at global scale. ### What You’ll Do - Drive Technical Vision & Architecture: Define the multi-year architecture and technical strategy for high-throughput, external-facing ingestion services and APIs across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). - Deliver Customer-Facing Innovations: Lead the end-to-end execution of enterprise-grade external features, ensuring low-latency data landing, high availability, and seamless ecosystem integration (e.g., Snowpark Connect, partner connectors). - Set Technical Direction: Author foundational design documents, establish technical standards for reliability, security, and scalability, and lead high-stakes architectural reviews across engineering orgs. - Lead Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with Principal Architects, Product Management, Security, and external developer platforms to translate customer requirements into resilient system architecture. - Elevate Engineering Excellence: Mentor and sponsor Senior, Mid-level, and Junior engineers; raise the bar for system design, code quality, testing methodologies, and operational maturity. - Direct Customer & Strategic Impact: Engage with enterprise customer engineering teams to solve complex integration challenges, debug production edge cases at scale, and turn direct customer feedback into core platform capabilities. ### What We’re Looking For - 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud-native infrastructure in production. - Proven track record of architectural leadership, having successfully taken complex, customer-facing services or external APIs from initial concept to General Availability (GA) and global scale. - Expert proficiency in Java or C++ (strong preference for engineers comfortable working across both systems-level C++ and managed service Java frameworks). - Deep expertise in external API design, cloud service orchestration, and building resilient, multi-tenant customer-facing endpoints. - Deep domain knowledge in at least one of the following: high-throughput ingestion pipelines, distributed query execution engines, messaging/streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Pulsar), or database internals. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to drive technical consensus across cross-functional leadership, product partners, and external technical stakeholders. - BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. ### Bonus Points - Experience building and scaling external developer platforms, SDKs, or public SaaS APIs serving external consumers. - Deep expertise with open table formats (Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake) and integration with ecosystems like Apache Spark or Ray. - Advanced performance engineering expertise: memory management, SIMD, vectorization, lock-free data structures, or I/O optimization at PB-scale. - Strong background in metadata management, transactional state machines, or consensus protocols (e.g., Raft, Paxos). - Active contributor to open-source data infrastructure, cloud-native compute systems, or query engines. ### Why This Team - Massive Strategic Impact: You will lead the expansion of Snowflake's most critical data-path surface into direct, customer-facing integrations that unlock new platform ecosystems and drive platform volume. - Broad Architectural Scope: Your work will bridge edge API layers, control-plane orchestrators, file scanners/parsers, query planners, and underlying storage engines. - High Customer Visibility: Work directly on features that power the external integrations for Fortune 500 enterprises, seeing the immediate revenue and performance impact of your architecture. - Culture of Technical Leadership: Partner directly with Snowflake’s top architects and leads in an environment that values deep technical autonomy, rigorous engineering, and long-term architectural stewardship. ## Skills ### Required - large-scale distributed systems - cloud-native infrastructure - Java - C++ - external API design - cloud service orchestration ### Nice to have - external developer platforms - SDKs - public SaaS APIs - open table formats - Apache Iceberg - Delta Lake - Apache Spark - Ray --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/35dfd8bf-a458-4c9c-a5d2-0b5d487b9640?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)