Senior Software Engineer - Billing Platform
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Senior Software Engineer on the Billing & Payments Platform team, building distributed billing systems that meter, rate, and invoice usage across all Snowflake services.
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What you’ll do
- Own medium-sized projects end-to-end — from design through launch and operation — and contribute as a key engineer on large, multi-team initiatives.
- Build federated, distributed billing systems that meter, rate, and invoice usage across every Snowflake service, all on Snowflake's own product.
- Shape billing strategy for AI products in partnership with Cortex AI, Intelligence, and Apps — including token-based inference, agent workflows, and AI-native subscriptions.
- Use AI as a first-class collaborator in development, code review, debugging, and on-call triage via Cortex Code CLI and Snowflake Intelligence.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and supporting large-scale, production distributed systems.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: consistency, fault tolerance, idempotency, exactly-once processing, queueing, and stream/batch data pipelines.
- Strong fundamentals in databases and data modeling — SQL fluency, schema design, performance tuning.
- Proficiency in one or more of Java, Scala, Python, or Go.
Technologies
Java · Scala · Python · Go · Snowflake · Snowpark · Cortex AI · Cortex Code · Streams/Tasks · Iceberg · Streamlit
About Snowflake
Cloud-native data platform letting enterprises run analytics, AI/ML, and apps on governed data across AWS, Azure, and GCP without moving it.
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. The Billing & Payments Platform team builds Snowflake's central data repository and infrastructure for customer resource consumption, revenue processing, invoicing, and reporting. Our systems
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At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. The Billing & Payments Platform team builds Snowflake's central data repository and infrastructure for customer resource consumption, revenue processing, invoicing, and reporting. Our systems power Snowflake's business and enable every other engineering team — and the architectures we ship double as reference patterns for our customers building on Snowflake. Computing Snowflake's bills, at its core, is a challenging distributed systems problem: real-time usage metering across every cloud and region, and supporting an ever-evolving catalog of pricing models — including the new commercial constructs we are inventing for Cortex AI, Snowflake Intelligence, and the broader agentic AI port [... source excerpt omitted ...] will partner daily with Product, Finance, Legal, Growth, Go-to-Market Systems, Snowsight UI, Cortex AI, and product engineering teams across Snowflake to deliver experiences that customers and internal stakeholders depend on every day. What You'll Do As a Senior Software Engineer on Billing Platform, you will: Own medium-sized projects end-to-end — from design through launch and operation — and contribute as a key engineer on large, multi-team initiatives. Build federated, distributed billing systems that meter, rate, and invoice usage across every Snowflake service, all on Snowflake's own product. Shape billing strategy for AI products in partnership with Cortex AI, Intell [... source excerpt omitted ...] gal to translate business intent into reliable, auditable systems. What We Look For 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and supporting large-scale, production distributed systems. Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: consistency, fault tolerance, idempotency, exactly-once processing, queueing, and stream/batch data pipelines. Strong fundamentals in databases and data modeling — SQL fluency, schema design, performance tuning, and an appreciation for the operational realities of large-scale data systems. Proficiency in one or mor
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