Principal Front-End Engineer – Marketplace

Join Snowflake as a Principal Front-End Engineer

About the Role

As a Principal Front-End Engineer at Snowflake, you will be at the forefront of building the future of data. You will contribute to the product vision and lead engineering projects that span our tech stack, including React, Hooks, Typescript, Node.JS, Kubernetes, and Java. Your role will involve delivering features that require close collaboration across multiple teams, including Design, Product Management, and architects.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a strong contributor to the product vision.
• Lead and drive engineering projects that span our stack.
• Deliver features requiring close collaboration across multiple teams.
• Exemplify strong collaboration within a cross-functional team, including Design, Product Management, and architects.
• Build for scale and high performance.
• Mentor and coach other senior team members.

Ideal Candidate

Our ideal Principal Front-End Engineer will have:

• Extensive software development experience, including 12+ years in web application development, preferably in product companies.
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead in high-impact customer-facing projects.
• The skill to deal with ambiguity and bring clarity into projects they lead.
• The ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Deep understanding of modern large-scale web application architecture, good API design patterns, design systems, micro frontends, and standards such as Core Web Vitals.
• Deep understanding of the foundations of web technologies, including how browsers, JavaScript, and frameworks work under the hood. Experience with React is desirable.
• Experience solving crucial problems such as state management, SEO, performance, observability, and accessibility.

Why Join Snowflake?

• Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.
• Create intuitive, elegant, and accessible user interfaces that make a powerful and highly technical product simple to use.
• Learn about and contribute to a super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

About Snowflake

Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the AI Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing.