Six Figure Work

Software Engineer - Backend

Snowflake

Company websitesnowflake.com (Snowflake, opens in new tab)

Base salary $157K  to $230K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Menlo Park, CA +1 more

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  • LocationMenlo Park, CA +1 more
  • WorkplaceHybrid
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
  • Last checked (43 min ago) · observed since
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  • Menlo Park, CA
  • Bellevue, WA

About this job

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.

We’re at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Snowflake started with a clear vision: develop a cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Data Cloud allows sharing live data in governed and secure ways so our customers can solve their business problems.

Data Cloud allows sharing live data in governed and secure ways so our customers can solve their business problems. Come join our world-class team as a Software Engineer to build the backend services for data cloud to help our customers to share data internally within their company or outside with external organizations.

We are investing in initiatives across multiple engineering areas that include: Data Engineering & Open Lakehouse, Database Engineering, Engineering Systems, Product Experiences, Apps & Collaboration,Platform Engineering, and Public Sector, Security and Governance

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL:

  • Design and build features, and/or distributed platforms at scale. 

  • Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure

  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions.

  • Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

  • 2-7 years’ of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.

  • Strong fundamental computer science skills. Knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

  • Fluency in Java, Python, C++, or SQL 

  • Deep multi-faceted appreciation in building end-to-end customer facing products.

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

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE: 

  • Familiarity with database internals or data governance, and/or payment systems is a plus

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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

Source: Snowflake on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($157,000) is above 33% of the 4,302 Software Engineering roles in California listed on this site; 2 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $176,000; the middle half runs from $149,100 to $203,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Snowflake roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Snowflake roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Software Engineer - Backend (this listing)$157K - $230K
Principal Program Manager - Federal$157,000 - $205,800
Software Engineer - AIM Virtualization$157K - $230K
Principal Program Manager$157,000 - $205,800
Senior Marketing Systems Architect$158,000 - $206,800
Senior Content Marketing Manager$158,000 - $206,800
Senior AI Engineer, Enterprise$156,000 - $224,200

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Snowflake roles · How to read the bar

Observed changes

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Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-02-06
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: US-CA-Menlo Park • US-WA-Bellevue

USD 157,000 – 230,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary

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