Staff Software Engineer (App Runtime)

Join Snowflake as a Staff Software Engineer in the App Runtime team, where you will shape the product and its architecture, lead a team to scale and harden an early-stage product, and have a long-lasting impact on the future of Snowflake as an app platform. You will own the roadmap and technical decisions, stay hands-on by authoring specs and implementing critical code, serve as the primary technical representative for App Runtime, partner directly with customers, grow the team, and align with adjacent teams.

• Concevoir et mettre en œuvre l'architecture du produit, en prenant des décisions techniques pour faire évoluer la plateforme de prévisualisation publique vers une version de production.
• Diriger une équipe pour développer et renforcer un produit en prévisualisation publique, en ajoutant des fonctionnalités telles que l'évolutivité horizontale et l'efficacité des coûts.
• Servir de représentant technique principal pour l'App Runtime, en collaborant directement avec les clients pour comprendre leurs besoins.
• Exceptional communication skills: crisp write-ups, constructive debate, and ability to influence without authority across engineering and product
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. Master’s or higher is preferred but not a requirement
• 10+ years of experience, with a demonstrated track record of architecting, shipping and operating high-scale, container-based (e.g. Kubernetes) platforms, including staff-level ownership of technical direction, cross-team delivery, and mentoring
• Proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, Python, TypeScript or Go (strong in backend and familiar with modern web stacks like Node.js), applied in distributed environments where security, reliability and performance are critical
• Your designs consider software holistically, from the hardware infrastructure to the client-side performance in the browser
• You keep yourself and engineers around you accountable for measurable outcomes
• You designed multi-tenant systems (ideally app hosting platforms or tooling for developers) with strong isolation and a security-first posture
• You have hands-on experience designing and evolving developer-facing SDKs and APIs
• You led delivery of 0-1 products where you skillfully balanced the trade-offs between feature completeness and time-to-market