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.

There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake's founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn't stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.

The Developer Platform organization is on a mission to win the hearts and minds of developers by making it seamless and intuitive to build with data. The existing Interfaces team is a core part of this mission, owning the public interfaces developers use to build with data, including our APIs and client-facing protocols.

Within Interfaces, the APIs team focuses on Snowflake’s external APIs. This team has a direct impact on our customers and revenue by taking ownership of Snowflake’s core APIs, including our REST API and SQL API, as well as critical connectors and tools that drive millions in monthly credits. You will be at the forefront of ensuring developers have a world-class experience, enabling them to integrate Snowflake into their workflows and build the next generation of data applications.

As a Software Engineer on the APIs team, you will:

• Design, implement, and evolve Snowflake’s external APIs, with a strong focus on the REST API and SQL API used by customers and partners.

• Build reliable, secure, and scalable API endpoints and services in Java, working across authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and usage telemetry.

• Collaborate with other Developer Platform teams to provide great API building blocks for tools like the Terraform Provider, client libraries, and other ecosystem integrations.

• Contribute to and help maintain key developer-facing integrations (e.g., SDKs) that use our REST and SQL APIs.

• Partner closely with Product Managers to understand customer requirements and translate them into intuitive, well-documented API designs.

• Analyze and solve complex challenges in fault tolerance, high availability, performance, and scale for customer-facing services.

• Ensure the operational readiness of our APIs and services and meet our commitments to customers regarding reliability and performance.

• Participate in on-call rotations to support the services and APIs you build.

Our ideal Software Engineer will have:

• 3+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting software in a production environment.

• Strong proficiency in Java and experience building server-side applications with it (or on the JVM).

• At least basic working knowledge of Python (e.g., scripting, simple tooling, or tests) and willingness to grow Python skills over time.

• Hands-on experience building and designing customer-facing distributed web services and APIs (especially REST/HTTP; SQL or RPC is a plus).

• Solid understanding of systems programming concepts, including multi-threading, concurrency, and related topics.

• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, particularly in a cloud environment.

• Excellent communication skills and a passion for collaborating with a diverse group of colleagues and external developers.

• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related major, or equivalent experience.

Bonus points for:

• Experience with Python beyond the basics (e.g., building tools, services, or libraries for other developers).

• Experience with Go or JavaScript.

• Experience with SQL or other database technologies, including their internal design and implementation.

• Familiarity with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Experience owning public APIs end-to-end, from design and documentation to rollout and deprecation.

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