Fall 2025 Internship

Job Description

About Snowflake:

Snowflake is a global, world-class organization with offices in over a dozen countries. They developed a cloud data platform designed to be effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Their innovative, cloud-built architecture combines data warehousing power, big data platform flexibility, and cloud elasticity at a lower cost than traditional solutions. Snowflake is seeking dedicated students passionate about groundbreaking technology to contribute to its future.

Job Description: Fall 2025 Internship

Snowflake offers paid, full-time internships for students actively enrolled in an accredited college/university. The internships are located in the heart of the software industry and provide opportunities for post-internship full-time employment or further internships.

What the Internship Offers:

• Paid, full-time internship: A compensated position within a fast-paced, fun, and inclusive environment.
• Career opportunities: Potential for full-time employment or additional internships post-internship.
• Exposure to experts and challenging projects: Work alongside world-class professionals on impactful projects.
• Meaningful contributions: Contribute directly to a real system used by customers.
• Mentorship and feedback: High level of access to supervisors with detailed guidance, regular feedback, and a final evaluation.
• Team involvement: Treated as a full team member, included in company meetings and activities.
• Flexibility and perks: Flexible hours, casual dress code, work-from-home accommodations, company swag, and more. (When in-office: catered lunches, gaming consoles, recreational games, happy hours, company outings).

Requirements:

• Enrollment: Must be actively enrolled in an accredited college/university.
• Class Level: 3rd/4th year undergraduates, Masters, or PhD students preferred.
• Majors: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Math, or a related field.
• Required Coursework: Algorithms, data structures, software engineering, and operating systems.
• Recommended Coursework: Cloud computing, compilers, database systems, distributed systems, functional programming languages (PL), networking.
• Bonus Experience: Research or publications in databases or distributed systems, open-source contributions, and experience working with big data (engineering/processing).
• Programming Skills: Excellent programming skills in C++ or Java. Preferred knowledge of C++20 or C++17, Java 20 or Java 17.
• Technical Skills: Knowledge of data structures and algorithms, systems programming (multi-threading, concurrency), strong problem-solving abilities, quick learning in dynamic environments, teamwork experience, and a dedication to technology.

What You Will Learn:

• Building enterprise-grade, reliable, and trustworthy software/services.
• Exposure to SQL or other database technologies (e.g., Spark, Hadoop).
• Understanding of database internals, large-scale data processing, transaction processing, distributed systems, and data warehouse design.
• Implementation and testing of features in query compilation, compiler design, and query execution.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Exposure to cutting-edge database technology and research.

Potential Teams/Work Focus Areas:

• Database Query Engine: Compiler, query optimization, query execution & performance, SQL frameworks.
• FoundationDB key-value store: FDB storage, FDB performance.
• Hybrid Transactional & Analytical Processing (Unistore): High-performance large-scale data processing, large-scale distributed systems, Software-as-a-Service platform, software frameworks for stability and performance testing.

Compensation: The estimated pay range for this role is $42.00 – $60.00 per hour. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; flexible spending & health savings account; employee assistance program; and other company benefits. (Specific details for US locations are available on the Snowflake Careers Site).

Timeline:

• Start Dates: August 15, September 12
• End Dates: November 7, December 19
• Duration: Minimum 12 weeks, recommended 16 weeks (maximum 12 months).