3 months ago
Berlin, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Drive technical strategy and architecture for Data Platform initiatives focused on real-time data movement and incremental processing.
- Lead design reviews and establish engineering standards across teams.
- Resolve high-impact technical challenges and systemic bottlenecks to reduce latency and improve dynamic table efficiency at cloud scale.
- Mentor and grow senior engineers and raise the engineering bar.
- Partner with product and infrastructure leadership on roadmap and direction.
- Deliver hands-on technical work in critical areas.
Requirements
- 14+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems.
- A demonstrated track record of defining and delivering platform-scale technical initiatives.
- Expert-level knowledge of streaming and/or batch data systems such as Flink, Spark, or equivalent.
- Specialized knowledge of incremental materialization algorithms.
- Strong systems thinking across infrastructure, storage, compute, and APIs.
- A passion for engaging directly with customers to gain insight and inspiration.
- Experience influencing technical direction across organizations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication for technical and executive audiences.
- Experience with AI-augmented development practices and integrating LLM-based tooling into engineering workflows is desirable.
- Familiarity with Snowflake platform internals or cloud-native data systems is desirable.
- Experience with metadata systems, query optimization, or data catalog infrastructure is desirable.
- Contributions to open source, such as top-level Apache projects, are desirable.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Snowflake
Snowflake builds a cloud-native data platform used by enterprises to store, integrate, share, and analyze data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its core products span data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and governed data sharing, sold via consumption-based subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and publicly traded on the NYSE (SNOW) following a 2020 IPO, Snowflake supports analytics and data application workloads across industries.