Senior Software Engineer, Snowpark Python - Snowflake Computing

Snowpark expands the Snowflake Data Platform to data engineering, data science and machine learning.

You will design and build the Python APIs and language features that Data engineers, Data scientists and ML practitioners will use to analyze & transform data and build production ready data pipelines. You will also work with partner teams across Snowflake to provide a coherent and compelling experience to our customers. You will make iterative improvements to Snowpark based on customer feedback. 

• Proficient in the Python programming language
• Excited about building great experiences for developers looking to build against the Snowflake platform

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design and develop Snowpark features in Python, understand customer requirements and iterate based on feedback
• Interface with the open source community and contribute to Snowflake’s open source libraries including Snowpark Python and the Snowflake Python Connector
• Build high quality software that improves the experience of the Data developer
• Ensure operational readiness of the product and meet customer commitments with regards to incident SLAs
• Work with Product Management and other partners to deliver robust experiences to our customers. 

REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years of experience designing and building SDKs and APIs.
• Knowledge of existing language runtimes - Python in particular. 
• Knowledge of distributed compute platforms like Spark, DASK preferred.
• Knowledge of database system internals

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.