About this role

Core metadata storage and retrieval systems that power Snowflake's catalog, lineage, and governance products
High-throughput, low-latency distributed services in a cloud-native environment
APIs and frameworks consumed by internal teams and external customers
Observability, reliability, and operational tooling for production metadata services
Scalable data models that evolve with Snowflake's rapidly growing feature surface

7+ years of experience in backend software engineering
Strong proficiency in Java, C++, Go, or similar systems-level languages
Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale (high availability, fault tolerance, consistency tradeoffs)
Solid understanding of database internals, metadata management, or catalog systems
Proven ability to lead technical design across multiple engineers and drive features end-to-end
Strong communication skills — able to write clear design documents and present tradeoffs to stakeholders
Experience with data catalog, data governance, or schema registry systems
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP
Prior work on multi-tenant SaaS platforms
Contributions to open-source projects in the metadata or data infrastructure space.

Senior Software Engineer – Metadata

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