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Snowflake Salary

Snowflake Salary

Snowflake pays a median of $216K ($190K–$244K) across 253 public job postings (2025–2026).

💰 $190K–$244K salary range

Median: $216K  ·  Based on 253 public Snowflake job postings  ·  Updated July 1, 2026


This Snowflake salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect the posted-range midpoint (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Snowflake · pay benchmark · updated July 1, 2026
$216K
inc. eng · sales · ops
All-role median
$190K–$244K
Typical range
$437K view JD
Highest base · Principal Software Engineer II - Next-Gen Data Transformations
253
Open roles
~7 yrs
Typical exp.
+86
195 last 90d
New last 30d
ⓘ Base salary only — 6% of roles mention equity
IC salary by seniority
Junior
$119K (14)
Mid
$193K (17)
Senior
$205K (122)
Staff
$280K (61)
Management pay by function
Engineering
$288K (6)
Alliances and Channels
$209K (2)
Sales
$197K (2)
Product Management
$195K (2)
Professional Services
$187K (2)
Marketing
$144K (6)
Salary by department · median & top base
engineering
$244K · $437K top (85)
product management
$244K · $380K top (21)
alliances and channels
$227K · $257K top (5)
marketing
$215K · $362K top (17)
people
$213K · $371K top (9)
legal
$205K · $357K top (5)
professional services
$192K · $321K top (14)
solution engineering
$191K · $310K top (39)
Pay by location
New York $199K (13)Atlanta $117K (5)Denver $127K (4)Chicago $177K (4)
Highest-paying skills
Embeddings $288KPostgreSQL $266KJava $244KIceberg $244KFlink $244KReact $244KTypeScript $244KScala $244K

Highest-paying open roles at Snowflake

Snowflake salary by department

  • engineering: $244K median · $437K top base — Principal Software Engineer II - Next-Gen Data Transformations (view JD) (85 roles)
  • product management: $244K median · $380K top base — Principal Product Manager - Zero-Copy Integrations (view JD) (21 roles)
  • alliances and channels: $227K median · $257K top base — Senior Partner Development Manager, AWS (view JD) (5 roles)
  • marketing: $215K median · $362K top base — Director, Global Marketing Operations (view JD) (17 roles)
  • people: $213K median · $371K top base — Senior Director, Compensation (view JD) (9 roles)
  • legal: $205K median · $357K top base — Principal Counsel, Assistant General Counsel, Public Sector (view JD) (5 roles)
  • professional services: $192K median · $321K top base — Sr. Technical Delivery Director (view JD) (14 roles)
  • solution engineering: $191K median · $310K top base — Director, Industry Solutions (view JD) (39 roles)

Snowflake salary by seniority

  • Junior: $119K median · $230K top base — Software Engineer - Snowflake Postgres (view JD) (14)
  • Mid: $193K median · $232K top base — Corporate Counsel 2 - Product (view JD) (17)
  • Senior: $205K median · $380K top base — Senior Engineering Manager - Postgres (view JD) (122)
  • Staff: $280K median · $437K top base — Principal Software Engineer II - Next-Gen Data Transformations (view JD) (61)

Snowflake salary — lead & management

  • Manager: $206K median · $339K top base — Engineering Manager - SnowConvert AI (view JD) (24)
  • Director: $255K median · $437K top base — Director of Engineering - Application, Cloud and Offensive Security (view JD) (12)

Snowflake salary by location

  • New York: $199K median · $310K top base — Director, Industry Solutions (view JD) (13 roles)
  • Atlanta: $117K median · $217K top base — Senior Solution Engineer (view JD) (5 roles)
  • Denver: $127K median · $218K top base — Senior PS Sales Solutions Architect (view JD) (4 roles)
  • Chicago: $177K median · $217K top base — Senior Solution Engineer (view JD) (4 roles)

Remote work at Snowflake

1% of Snowflake's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly.

What Snowflake looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Snowflake (148) · Python (86) · Java (42) · SQL (41) · AWS (33) · Azure (32) · GCP (30) · Go (29) · Kubernetes (16) · Dbt (9).

Benefits & perks at Snowflake

Commonly listed: dental (4) · 401k (4) · pto (4) · learning (2) · mental-health (2) · hsa-fsa (2) · parental (2).

About Snowflake

Snowflake is Public stage · 5,001–10,000 employees · founded 2012 · HQ San Mateo, California. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at Snowflake

Roles typically ask for around 7 years of experience (up to 20+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 87 that do, Bachelor's and Master's and PhD are most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 6% of these postings reference equity. Equity is not included in the medians above.

Snowflake total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 50% of roles list a bonus; 100% include commission; common structures: salaried. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

Snowflake hiring activity

Snowflake has 253 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 253 public job postings with disclosed pay. 86 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (195 in the last 90).

💼 Similar companies hiring

Compare Snowflake's pay with companies in the same space:

CompanyMedian payvs SnowflakeStage
Collibra$164K↓ -24%Series G
Confluent$243K↑ +12%Public
Databricks$215K↓ -1%Series I
Palantir$168K↓ -23%Public
Sigma Computing$203K↓ -6%Series E
Alteryx$142K↓ -35%Series C

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Common questions

What does Snowflake pay?
The median pay is $216K, with a typical range of $190K–$244K, based on 253 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at Snowflake?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Principal Software Engineer II - Next-Gen Data Transformations, at $304K–$437K base.

Which team pays the most at Snowflake?
The engineering team, at a $244K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 253 public Snowflake job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed July 1, 2026.

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