If you've never heard of Developer Productivity Engineering, don't worry, I’m here to explain what DPE can do and why our DPE team is essential to concepts of developer experience (DX) and developer productivity.

At Snowflake, DPE is an internal team whose customers are the Snowflake product development teams. Our mission is to provide a highly reliable and simple way to quickly deliver outstanding quality features to Snowflake's users.

Whatever we build, we strive to adhere to trust, simplicity, and efficiency. It is important to us that all of our tools and infrastructure work reliably and predictably. They should be intuitive to use, but they also need to work fast and scale out easily to support Snowflake's rapid growth.

The DPE team is split between Warsaw, Bellevue, and San Mateo. The scope of work is quite broad, including building CLIs, distributed systems that scale out our testing infrastructure, web applications, and local and remote developer environments. Here in Warsaw, we are currently working on continuous integration (CI) tools and a developer portal.

The developer portal is a particularly important project for the DPE team in Warsaw at the moment. The rapid growth of highly autonomous teams is a challenge, and it's becoming increasingly important to standardize our tools and infrastructure, as well as provide an overview and discoverability of all our software.

We choose a technology stack based on the task at hand. We are experts in Java and fluent in front-end technologies. We are big believers in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Pair Programming. The really cool thing is that because of the nature of our team, we have had the opportunity to experience almost every technology and language used at Snowflake.

Finally, we are a group of people who want to take pride in what we build. We are always honest, respectful, and open to feedback. And beyond everything, we want our customers to feel that they are taken care of and to enjoy the best developer experience possible at all times.