# Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion at Snowflake

- Company: Snowflake
- What the company does: Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.snowflake.net/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: US-WA-Bellevue
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $236K to $339K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-13
- Apply by: 2026-11-27
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/35dfd8bf-a458-4c9c-a5d2-0b5d487b9640?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snowflake-staff-software-engineer-ingestion/

## About the role

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). Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they'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

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snowflake-staff-software-engineer-ingestion/