Snowflake salaries
Snowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) data platform company founded in San Mateo, California, and headquartered in Menlo Park.
99 posted ranges · median $244k · H-1B median $197k (384 filings)
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Senior Engineering Manager - AIM Virtualization
Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer - Billing Platform
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Information Systems Security Engineer
Security Engineer · Washington DC area
Software Engineer - Trust & Platform Security
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Principal Software Engineer - Parameters & Experimentation
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Engineering Manager/Tech Lead Manager - Runtime Engineering
Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer - Warehouse UX
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer, Compute Service
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier Engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer I, Frontier Engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineering Manager, AI Migrations (Forward Deployed)
Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer - Engineering Systems, Continuous Integration
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Security Engineer - Enterprise Security
Security Engineer · Seattle area
Software Engineer - Engineering Systems, Continuous Integration
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Principal Software Engineer - Elastic Global Services
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Principal Software Engineer 2 - OLTP
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Provisioning Service
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Software Engineer - SnowConvert AI
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Frontend Software Engineer - Cortex AI Apps
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Principal Software Engineer II - Interoperable Foundations
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Principal Software Engineer II - Next-Gen Data Transformations
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Principal Software Engineer II - Product Security
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Director, Analytics Engineering, Data Analytics & AI
Head of Data · San Francisco Bay Area
Principal Software Engineer I - Snowhouse Foundation
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Principal Software Engineer - Agentic Pipelines
Agent Engineer · Seattle area
Principal Software Engineer - Performance Engineering (Cloud Infrastructure)
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Engineering Manager - OLTP
Engineering Manager · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff/Principal AI Software Engineer - Snowflake CoWork
AI Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer, Cortex AI Search Infrastructure
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer - Unistore
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer - FDB Platform
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Frontend AI Engineer - Cortex Code
AI Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer, Snowpark Container Service
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer - Snowhouse
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Frontend Software Engineer, AI Product: Observe by Snowflake
AI Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer - Query Processing (Snowtrail)
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior/Staff System Research Engineer - LLM Inference Optimization
Research Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Manager, Product Data Science
Data Scientist · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer, Frontier Security Team
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Research Scientist, AI Agents & LLMs
Research Scientist · Seattle area
Senior Frontend Engineer, AI Product - Observe by Snowflake
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, OpenTelemetry
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer - ManagedDB
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer - Database Engineering
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer - Identity & Access Management
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Software Engineer - Identity, Data Security and Trust
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Software Engineer, Snowpark Container Service
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Software Engineer - Marketplace
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer, CXE - Frontier Engineering
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer - Snowflake Feature Store
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Efficiency
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Security
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer - Security Foundations
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Intermediate/ Senior Software Engineer - Cortex LLM Training Platform
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Software Engineer - Billing Platform
Software Engineer · Seattle area
Senior Software Engineer - Foundation DB
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Applied AI Engineer (FDE)
Forward Deployed Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Software Engineer, Cortex Quality
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Principal Solutions Architect - Data Engineering
Solutions Engineer · New York City
Software Engineer - Database Engineering
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineer (AI-Native), Database Engineering
AI Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
AI Research Scientist, New Grad - Agents & Reinforcement Learning
Research Scientist · Seattle area
Software Engineer - AIM Virtualization
Software Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Fullstack Engineer - Marketplace
Full Stack Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Post-Doctoral AI Researcher (2 year Fixed-Term)
Research Scientist · Seattle area
Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations
Solutions Engineer · Denver and Boulder
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Observe by Snowflake
Platform Engineer · San Francisco Bay Area
Developer Advocate - AI & Developer Experiences
Developer Advocate · San Francisco Bay Area
About
Snowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) data platform company founded in San Mateo, California, and headquartered in Menlo Park. It operates a platform that supports data analysis and simultaneous access to data sets with minimal latency. Source
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By level
| Level | Posted | H-1B | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry1 posted | $176k to $230kone posting | None | |
| Senior29 posted | $244k$200k to $288k | $242k109 filings | |
| Staff19 posted | $288k$236k to $339k | $288k22 filings | |
| Principal17 posted | $322k$264k to $380k | $217k7 filings | |
| Manager12 posted | $288k$236k to $339k | $311k9 filings | |
| Director and up1 posted | $292k to $383kone posting | Few1 filing | |
| Not stated20 posted | $195k$160k to $230k | $195k236 filings |
By city
| City | Posted | |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Bay Area55 open jobs with posted pay here. | $254k$221k to $288k | |
| Seattle area32 open jobs with posted pay here. | $263k$218k to $309k | |
| Remote (US)6 open jobs with posted pay here. | $188k$163k to $213k | |
| New York City3 open jobs with posted pay here. | $191k$165k to $217k | |
| Washington DC area2 open jobs with posted pay here. | $204k to $293k2 postings | |
| Denver and Boulder1 open job with posted pay here. | $166k to $218kone posting |
H-1B wages by title
H-1B median by quarter
| Fiscal quarter | Filings | Median |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Q1 | 56 | $230k |
| FY2025 Q2 | 60 | $226k |
| FY2025 Q3 | 78 | $202k |
| FY2025 Q4 | 65 | $208k |
| FY2026 Q1 | 52 | $238k |
| FY2026 Q2 | 63 | $216k |
| FY2026 Q3 | 204 | $195k |
Posted median by week
| Week of | Ranges | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 21, 2026 | 99 | $244k |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 103 | $244k |
| Oct 12, 2026 | 100 | $244k |
| Oct 19, 2026 | 100 | $244k |
| Oct 26, 2026 | 101 | $244k |
| Nov 2, 2026 | 99 | $244k |
Recent changes
Lowered the pay range for Staff Frontend AI Engineer - Cortex Code: now $236k to $339k, was $264k to $380k. Posting ↗
Retitled Engineering Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Migrations as Software Engineering Manager, AI Migrations (Forward Deployed). Posting ↗
And 2 more: Staff Frontend AI Engineer - Cortex Code; Senior Software Engineer, CXE - Frontier Engineering.
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