Staff Software Engineer - Compiler & Spark Runtime

Highlights

• Bring Snowflake's performance and efficiency to large-scale Spark workloads.
• Own compiler and runtime integration from design through production rollout.
• Drive faster, more cost-efficient data processing at scale.

Ideal candidate

A hands-on technical leader with 10+ years building large-scale systems who thrives on hard correctness and performance problems. You lead through judgment and mentorship and care about efficient, reliable data processing at scale.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience with ownership of significant architectural and implementation decisions
• Deep expertise in compiler architecture and IR transformations, relational query processing, language semantics and type systems, or runtime integration
• Proficiency in Scala, Java, C++, or comparable language with ability to write and review production code
• Strong systems fundamentals in concurrency, memory behavior, and performance analysis with experience debugging complex production issues
• Ability to translate technical and customer requirements into practical engineering priorities and collaborate across teams and locations
• Strong technical communication and mentorship skills with ability to build alignment around architectural decisions