# Staff Software Engineer - Compiler & Spark Runtime

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. Staff Software Engineer - Compiler & Spark Runtime Location: Bellevue, WA or Menlo Park, CA About the Team The Spark Runtime Engineering Team brings Snowflake’s performance, efficiency, and reliability to Spark workloads. Our mission is to help customers scale data processing while preserving the familiar Spark APIs and semantics they rely on. We build the compiler and runtime integration that translate Spark workloads into efficient execution on Snowflake’s cloud-native query engine. This

- **Id**: 4226103
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/snowflake-staff-software-engineer-compiler-spark-runtime>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Menlo Park, United States, Bellevue, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T02:57:31Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T07:55:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6430
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Warehouses & Lakehouses, Databases & DBMS, Data Marketplaces, Sharing & Clean Rooms

## Company

- **Id**: 96
- **Name**: Snowflake
- **Domain**: snowflake.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/snowflake>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 54
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.574
- **Repost share**: 0.037
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 55
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 236000
- **Max**: 339200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 339200

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T07:55:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 529 · green card filings: 106; Filings 12m: 529

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 55
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T08:44:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 339200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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