Staff Software Engineer, App Runtime

The role

You will lead a team to scale and harden an early-stage, public-preview platform for building and running web applications. You will shape the product architecture and own the roadmap to evolve the platform into a production-grade system.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap and technical decisions to evolve the public-preview platform into a production-grade one
• Author specs and implement critical code across components including runtime infrastructure, governance model, coding agents, and user interfaces
• Serve as the primary technical representative for App Runtime internally and externally
• Partner directly with customers to convert needs to roadmap priorities
• Grow the team by setting a high engineering bar and incubating technical leaders
• Align with adjacent teams like Container Platform, Networking, Cortex AI, Security and Snowsight

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 10+ years of experience architecting, shipping and operating high-scale, container-based (e.g. Kubernetes) platforms
• 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
• Experience in distributed environments where security, reliability and performance are critical
• Exceptional communication skills including crisp write-ups, constructive debate, and ability to influence without authority

Nice to have

• Led delivery of 0-1 products balancing feature completeness and time-to-market
• Hands-on experience designing and evolving developer-facing SDKs and APIs
• Designed multi-tenant systems with strong isolation and a security-first posture
• Keep yourself and engineers accountable for measurable outcomes
• Designs consider software holistically from hardware infrastructure to client-side performance

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.