AI Data Cloud Internship

Job Description

About Snowflake:

Snowflake is a global, world-class organization with offices in over a dozen countries. They built a cloud data platform designed to be effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Their innovative architecture combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the cloud’s elasticity at a lower cost than traditional solutions. Snowflake is rapidly growing and scaling its team to accelerate its growth. They are seeking individuals who share their values, challenge conventional thinking, and drive innovation.

Job Description: AI Data Cloud Internship (Fall 2025)

Snowflake is offering paid, full-time internships for dedicated students passionate about groundbreaking technology. Internships offer post-internship career opportunities (full-time and/or additional internships). The internships provide exposure to a fast-paced, inclusive, and fun work environment. Interns will work with world-class experts on challenging projects, making meaningful contributions to a real system used by customers.

What the Internship Offers:

• Paid, full-time internship
• Post-internship career opportunities
• Fast-paced, fun, and inclusive work culture
• Collaboration with world-class experts
• Meaningful contributions to a real customer-facing system
• High level of access to supervisors (manager and mentor), detailed direction without micromanagement, regular feedback, and a final evaluation
• Perks: Treated as a full team member (included in company meetings/activities), flexible hours, casual dress code, work-from-home accommodations, company swag, catered lunches (when in-office), access to gaming consoles, recreational games, happy hours, company outings (when applicable).

What Snowflake Expects:

• Active enrollment in an accredited college/university program during the internship.
• Ideally a 3rd/4th-year undergraduate, Masters, or PhD student.
• Desired majors: Computer Science, Physics, Math, or a related field.
• Required coursework: Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems.
• Recommended coursework: Database Systems, Distributed Systems.
• Excellent programming skills in Python or Java.
• Experience with DevOps (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform) and Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) is a plus.
• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment.
• Teamworking experience.
• Dedication and passion for technology.

What Interns Will Learn:

• Building enterprise-grade, reliable, and trustworthy software/services.
• SQL and/or other database technologies.
• Database internals, large-scale data processing, and data warehouse design.
• Delivering quality software in a large distributed system with an emphasis on functional and performance automation, workloads, and testing.
• Building automation frameworks and infrastructure to improve development workflow efficiency.
• Working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform).

Possible Teams/Work Focus Areas:

• Database Query Engine (QA)
• Engineering Systems (ES)
• Cloud Platform & Deployment Engineering
• Snowpark Container Services (SPCS)
• Quality & Release Engineering
• Software-as-a-Service platform
• Software frameworks for functional, system, performance & production testing
• Tooling and infrastructure automation for engineering productivity
• Multi-cloud release automation

Internship Details:

• When: Fall 2025
• Start Dates: August 15, September 12
• End Dates: November 7, December 19
• Duration: Minimum 12 weeks, 16 weeks recommended (maximum 12 months)

Compensation (US-based roles): The estimated pay range is $42.00 – $60.00 per hour. The actual starting hourly rate will depend on skills, experience, and location. A competitive benefits package is also included.