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Principal Data Engineer, User Success
Autodesk
Toronto, ON · AMER - Canada - Ontario - Toronto - University Ave
- Full-time
The Principal Data Engineer will report to Director of Growth and Data Science in the Experience Foundations organization. This is a critical data science role for our agentic insights…
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Principal Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure
Ombud
Quinte West, Ontario
We're hiring a Principal Platform Engineer to own that foundation. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad architectural authority. You will not have direct reports. You…
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Member of Technical Staff
Beacon Software
Toronto, Ontario
- Full-time
Prior Staff or Principal Engineer experience at a high-bar engineering org.
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Lead Python AI Principal Engineer (Hands-On), SVP
Citi
Mississauga, ON
- Full-time
We are seeking a highly skilled, hands-on Lead Python AI Principal Engineer to join Citi in spearheading the design and development of cutting-edge AI platforms and services. This role…
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Lead Python AI Principal Engineer (Hands-On), SVP
Citi
Remote, Canada
- Full-time
- Remote
We are seeking a highly skilled, hands-on Lead Python AI Principal Engineer to join Citi in spearheading the design and development of cutting-edge AI platforms and services. This role…
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Principal Software Engineer - Data
ZoomInfo Technologies LLC
Toronto, ON
We are seeking an experienced Principal Software Engineer (Data) to join our fast-paced, collaborative data team. In this role, you will have broad authority to drive the direction of our…
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Lead AI Engineer
Altus Group
Toronto, Ontario
- Full-time
Reporting to the Principal Architect, we are hiring a Lead AI Engineer to help shape and build the next generation of AI capabilities across the Altus Group platform ecosystem. As our new…
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Principal Software Engineer
Fulfillment IQ
Remote, Canada
- Full-time
- Remote
Prior founding engineer or early platform team roles
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Senior Software Engineer
Evismart
Vancouver, BC
Clear trajectory: Principal Engineer → Staff Engineer, in a company at 145% YoY growth.
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AI Architect I
TextLayer
Remote, Canada
- $215,000 to $250,000 CAD / year
- Full-time
- Remote
We hire for great developers - not just those with extensive backgrounds in AI. If you've held Staff or Principal roles within your organization and want to learn AI, we want to meet you!
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Staff Software Engineer, App Runtime
Snowflake
Toronto, ON
- Full-time
As a Staff/Principal Engineer, you will shape the product and its architecture. It’s a high leverage role - you will lead a team to scale and harden an early-stage, public-preview product.…
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Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack Applications - Ratings Technology
Fitch Group
Toronto, ON
- $160,000 to $200,000 CAD / year
Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack Applications – Ratings Technology
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Principal NPI Test Engineer
Semtech
Burlington, ON · CAN - Burlington, ON
- Full-time

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Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer, App Runtime

Toronto, ON, Canada

Full-time

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Job details

Job type: Full-time
Experience: 10+ years of experience, with a demonstrated track record of architecting, shipping and operating high-scale, container-based (e.g.
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 10, 2026

Original job description

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.

About the role

The App Runtime team is building a platform that lets every Snowflake user go from an idea to a live, deployed web application (Node.js first) in minutes. We own the end-to-end experience of building and running apps, from Cortex AI-assisted development to deployment in a secure, scalable infrastructure. Apps built on the platform inherit Snowflake's security, governance, lineage, and access controls by default. See Deploy Faster with Snowflake Apps.

As a Staff/Principal Engineer, you will shape the product and its architecture. It’s a high leverage role - you will lead a team to scale and harden an early-stage, public-preview product. Your decisions will have a long-lasting impact on the future of Snowflake as an app platform. This role requires a unique combination of deep hands-on expertise in scalability, performance and security, great product instincts, customer obsession and the organizational influence to drive cross-team programs.

Responsibilities

Own the roadmap and technical decisions to evolve the public-preview platform into a production-grade one, adding features like horizontal scaling, cost efficiency via suspend/resume, support for stacks beyond Node.js, and stronger access and data-governance controls
Stay deeply hands-on by authoring specs and implementing critical code across components from runtime infrastructure and the governance model to coding agents and user interfaces; lead by example
Serve as the primary technical representative for App Runtime internally and externally
Partner directly with customers, i.e. developers building Snowflake Apps, converting their needs to roadmap priorities
Grow the team by setting a high engineering bar and incubating the next generation of technical leaders
Align with adjacent teams like Container Platform, Networking, Cortex AI, Security and Snowsight on shared goals

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. Master’s or higher is preferred but not a requirement

10+ years of experience, with a demonstrated track record of architecting, shipping and operating high-scale, container-based (e.g. Kubernetes) platforms, including staff-level ownership of technical direction, cross-team delivery, and mentoring
Proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, Python, TypeScript or Go (strong in backend and familiar with modern web stacks like Node.js), applied in distributed environments where security, reliability and performance are critical
Exceptional communication skills: crisp write-ups, constructive debate, and ability to influence without authority across engineering and product

Nice to have:

You led delivery of 0-1 products where you skillfully balanced the trade-offs between feature completeness and time-to-market
You have hands-on experience designing and evolving developer-facing SDKs and APIs
You designed multi-tenant systems (ideally app hosting platforms or tooling for developers) with strong isolation and a security-first posture
You keep yourself and engineers around you accountable for measurable outcomes
Your designs consider software holistically, from the hardware infrastructure to the client-side performance in the browser

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

This role is exempt from Ontario’s job posting requirements. Compensation information is provided voluntarily to promote transparency and consistency across our job postings.

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Responsibilities

The engineer will drive high-impact initiatives across product areas and the tech stack, utilizing languages like Java, Python, and Golang. Responsibilities also include promoting strong collaboration within cross-functional teams and contributing significantly to product vision and team planning.

Requirements

Candidates should possess at least two years of hands-on software development experience, with significant focus on backend development. A deep understanding of distributed design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance, and scale is essential.

Skills

Java
Python
Golang
Distributed Design Architecture
API Design Patterns
Security
Performance
Scale
Backend Software Development
Cross Functional Team Collaboration
Product Vision
Team Planning
App Lifecycle Management
Secure Sandbox Execution
IP Protection
UI Frameworks

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Keywords

Software Engineer
Native Apps
Snowflake
Data Marketplace
App Marketplace
Application Platform
App Lifecycle
Versioning
Global Rollouts
Installation
Execution
Secure Sandbox
App Runtimes
Access Control
Permissions
IP Protection
UI Frameworks
Java
Python
Golang
Distributed Design
API Design
Security
Performance
Scale
Data Development Tools
Data Infrastructure
ML
Cloud Platform

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