Portfolio Company Job Board

Find a job at one of our innovative portfolio companies
Sands Capital
84
companies
5,463
Jobs

Software Engineer- Native Apps

Snowflake

Snowflake

Software Engineering
Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted on Mar 8, 2025

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

Snowflake is a global cloud platform where thousands of organizations store and process their data. Our Marketplace allows them to exchange apps and data across organizational and geographical boundaries and between cloud providers, AWS, Azure and GCP.

The Native Apps team in Toronto is in the center of this innovation. We’re building an app platform which provides secure runtimes for analytical, data engineering and AI/ML apps. Our day-to-day work centers on the platform's scalability, availability, performance and ease of use. We’re proud to host successful apps from dozens of providers including Kumo AI, LandingAI and RelationalAI.

We’re still early in our journey and we are looking for talented and passionate engineers to innovate with us. Join is in our mission is to incubate a hugely successful app ecosystem, akin to the App Store.

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN THE NATIVE APPLICATION FOUNDATION, YOU WILL:

  • Invent the next generation cloud platform for building native applications on Snowflake

  • Design and implement highly scalable distributed systems meeting Snowflake customers’ needs

  • Innovate, providing simple solutions for complex problems

  • Collaborate with engineers, product, scientists, designers to deliver cross-functional initiatives.

  • Ensure operational excellence, meeting reliability, availability and performance goals

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

  • 2+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale systems in production

  • Extremely strong fundamental computer science and programming skills, ideally in Java

  • Appreciation of high quality code, excellent designs, outstanding user experience and flawless operational health

  • Experience on cross-team and cross-functional projects, partnering with product managers

  • Knowledge of database internals, app marketplaces or tools for developers is a plus

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors.

ABOUT APPS AND SNOWFLAKE:

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?