- The App Runtime team is building a platform that lets every Snowflake user go from an idea to a live, deployed web application (Node Js first) in minutes

- We own the end-to-end experience of building and running apps, from Cortex AI-assisted development to deployment in a secure, scalable infrastructure

- Apps built on the platform inherit Snowflake’s security, governance, lineage, and access controls by default

- See Deploy Faster with Snowflake Apps

- As a Staff/Principal Engineer, you will shape the product and its architecture

- It’s a high leverage role - you will lead a team to scale and harden an early-stage, public-preview product

- Your decisions will have a long-lasting impact on the future of Snowflake as an app platform

- This role requires a unique combination of deep hands-on expertise in scalability, performance and security, great product instincts, customer obsession and the organizational influence to drive cross-team programs

- Own the roadmap and technical decisions to evolve the public-preview platform into a production-grade one, adding features like horizontal scaling, cost efficiency via suspend/resume, support for stacks beyond Node.js, and stronger access and data-governance controls

- Stay deeply hands-on by authoring specs and implementing critical code across components from runtime infrastructure and the governance model to coding agents and user interfaces; lead by example

- Serve as the primary technical representative for App Runtime internally and externally

- Partner directly with customers, i.e. developers building Snowflake Apps, converting their needs to roadmap priorities

- Grow the team by setting a high engineering bar and incubating the next generation of technical leaders

- Align with adjacent teams like Container Platform, Networking, Cortex AI, Security and Snowsight on shared goals

Benefits





- Comprehensive health insurance plans

- Health savings accounts

- Robust retirement plans

- Life and disability insurance
- Weekly online lunch and learns

- Virtual workout classes
- Ergonomic work-from-home equipment

- On-demand mental health and wellness programs

- Fertility benefits and family planning resources

- Generous time-off and various leave plans

- Onsite and Remote Work
- Employee discounts and pre-tax selections

- Recent hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

- Quarterly bonus or commission program- Exceptional communication skills: crisp write-ups, constructive debate, and ability to influence without authority across engineering and product

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. Master’s or higher is preferred but not a requirement

- Proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, Python, TypeScript or Go (strong in backend and familiar with modern web stacks like Node.js), applied in distributed environments where security, reliability and performance are critical

- 10+ years of experience, with a demonstrated track record of architecting, shipping and operating high-scale, container-based (e.g. Kubernetes) platforms, including staff-level ownership of technical direction, cross-team delivery, and mentoring

- Your designs consider software holistically, from the hardware infrastructure to the client-side performance in the browser

- You keep yourself and engineers around you accountable for measurable outcomes

- You designed multi-tenant systems (ideally app hosting platforms or tooling for developers) with strong isolation and a security-first posture

- You have hands-on experience designing and evolving developer-facing SDKs and APIs

- You led delivery of 0-1 products where you skillfully balanced the trade-offs between feature completeness and time-to-market

📌 Staff Software Engineer (App Runtime) (Toronto)
🏢 Snowflake
📍 Toronto