What does it mean to be a Driver at Snowflake? Our team of nine senior engineers work in Java, C++, Node.JS, GO and C#, developing APIs that ensure top-notch security and performance for customers around the world. This encompasses designing, creating, releasing, and supporting software throughout its lifecycle. Our priority is to ensure a seamless user experience, with product operations deployed without any downtime for our valued users.

We handle tremendous amounts of data (~ 5 billion queries* a day to be exact) in a fast, secure, and reliable way. Of course, this comes with its own challenges for our team, such as:

Feature parity and consistency between drivers, written in different languages and paradigms
Compatibility with all main operating systems (Linux, Windows, MacOS) and cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Ensuring and complying with the highest security standards
A constant focus on the performance and stability of our products

Snowflake's ever-evolving feature set demands that our drivers stay up-to-date and seamlessly integrate with customer applications. To achieve this, we collaborate closely with Snowflake's engineering teams and global industry experts, streamlining our development processes to ensure efficient and effective delivery. The latest additions to our lineup include rethinking and changing the driver architecture (including generic Driver ideas and client-server API redesign) as well as other products based on drivers like ORMs, promising new opportunities for developers to leverage.

There’s an incredible opportunity to join our team and work on a wide variety of complex challenges across performance and security while collaborating directly with our team in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are an ambitious group of customer-focused team players on a mission to drive quality, efficiency, and change.

If you’re a quick-learning, tech-savvy engineer with a passion for developing groundbreaking technologies, your journey toward reshaping the digital landscape starts here. Click here to apply for a role on our Engineering team in Warsaw and learn more about what it's like to work at Snowflake.

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*Average daily queries from April 1, 2024 to April 30, 2024.