Job Summary:
Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise, seeking visionary engineering leaders to drive technical strategy and execute critical initiatives. The Principal Software Engineer II will lead strategic planning for the Horizon Catalog, mentor senior engineers, and influence the product roadmap while executing high complexity initiatives.
Responsibilities:
• Set Technical Vision: Lead strategic planning for the Horizon Catalog, translating complex business goals into technical architecture, and developing high-impact engineering roadmaps.
• Drive Product Influence: Actively influence and co-develop the product roadmap in partnership with the PM team
• High velocity execution: Directly lead execution of high complexity initiatives, and guide the execution of other initiatives in the team
• Technical Mentorship: Mentor and grow senior engineers
Qualifications:
Required:
• 15+ years experience designing and building large-scale distributed services.
• Deep expertise in metadata management and designing architectures to unify data from heterogeneous sources for governance.
• Proven ability to architect fine-grained access control and audit systems.
• Track record of translating high-level business strategy into actionable engineering roadmaps and influencing technical direction across multiple teams.
• Fluency in Java or another similar procedural object-oriented language.
• BS, Masters or PhD in Computer Science.
Preferred:
• Experience leveraging semantic metadata to power AI experiences, such as RAG for discovery.
• Ability to articulate architectural differentiation against key competitors.
• Solid understanding of RBAC and ABAC principles applied to scalable permissioning layers.
• Experience exposing catalog/search tools via Multi-Cloud Platforms for third-party agents, including safety and policy integration.
Company:
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.