Senior Software Engineer - Developer Productivity

About the Team

The UI Platform team at Snowflake accelerates the productivity of Snowflake’s UI engineers by providing the core libraries and building blocks used to build intuitive, performant, secure and consistent product experiences. Our mission is to enable our broader Product Experience teams to move faster with higher quality. We’re responsible for a number of areas including our UI component library, design system, testing frameworks, frontend observability and horizontal experiences. In short, we take care of the UI infrastructure so product teams at Snowflake can focus on building great user experiences and ship fearlessly.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a software engineer focused on Frontend Developer Productivity.  You will work with our UI Platform team to define, drive and deliver investments that will accelerate the velocity, quality and consistency of our user experiences.  

In this role you will focus on frontend developer productivity including: 

• Improving our frontend build and hot reload times so product engineers have tight feedback loops and can move quickly, even as the size of our codebase grows.
• Enhancing our frontend observability to enable developers to gain the insights they need to improve performance and stability of our applications
• Defining our approach to testing, type safety, and our overall strategy to improve code and product quality
• Build tools that allow our developers and product teams to prototype, build, change, test and debug product experiences more rapidly.
• Serve as a technical resource and engineering mentor for other frontend developers.

This is an opportunity to have a big impact on the productivity of our 100+ person Product Experiences Engineering organization, and to help us deliver on our ambitious roadmap for Snowflake. 

Who you are

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Proficient in HTML, CSS, and TypeScript / JavaScript
• Experience building with modern JavaScript frameworks (ie: React, Vue, Solid, Svelte, etc.) and build tools (Vite, Webpack / RSPack, Rollup, etc.)
• Experience building and maintaining tooling that enables your cross-team colleagues to succeed.
• Experience understanding, troubleshooting, and resolving client-side performance issues
• Strong written, verbal, and technical communication skills

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.

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $327,750.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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?