BELLEVUE, June 18, 2025
Snowflake Opens New Bellevue Office
Data giant Snowflake opens a new office in Bellevue, Washington, with a focus on collaboration and a unique “sea-to-summit” design.
- Snowflake’s new Bellevue office, located in the Spring District, can accommodate over 700 employees.
- The company is subleasing space from Meta in the Block 6 building.
- The office design embraces a collaborative atmosphere with a “sea-to-summit” theme.
In a significant move for the cloud computing and data industry, Snowflake officially unveiled its new office in Bellevue, Wash., on Tuesday, expanding its footprint in the Seattle area. The new space, with a wintry theme, is designed to foster collaboration among its employees.
Snowflake, headquartered in Bozeman, Mont., has been in the Seattle region since 2017. This expansion comes as the 13-year-old company experiences phenomenal success, driving substantial growth. The company now employs 8,000 people worldwide.
Snowflake moved into the new office a month ago, after outgrowing its previous space in downtown Bellevue. The company is leasing the Block 6 building from Meta, but has only built out five of the 11 floors, approximately 150,000 square feet.
The design theme, as described by the company, is a “sea-to-summit” aesthetic, which will eventually span the entire building. The decor features a ski lodge feel. Warrick Taylor, vice president of Workplace and Real Estate for Snowflake, noted the success of their product as a major driver for the company’s expansion.
Snowflake’s initial entry into the Seattle area was in 2017. The company went public in 2020, raising $3.4 billion in an IPO that was the largest software IPO at the time. In the first quarter of fiscal 2026, the company reported revenue of $1 billion, up 26% from the previous year, marking the first time it has exceeded $1 billion in quarterly sales.
A Focus on Collaboration
Snowflake joins over 100 other companies with engineering hubs in the Seattle area. The new office is designed to encourage collaboration. The focus is on creating gathering and meeting spaces for employees adjusting to the post-pandemic work environment.
The interior design embraces the company’s name with a wintry theme. Murals, fireplaces, and other design elements give the office a ski lodge ambiance. The building includes a kitchen and dining area with themed eateries and a fitness center and yoga studio.
Construction on the previously unfinished space began less than nine months prior, led by JPC Architects and general contractor Skyline Construction. Snowflake requires employees to spend three days a week in the office.
“We have taken everything that we’ve learned about how people work in those two years post-Covid and applied it into this building,” Taylor said. “They’re coming in for collaboration, meetings, events. They’re coming in for the social aspects of being in the same place.”
Meta previously had plans to occupy a large part of the Spring District, including a building originally intended as a new REI headquarters. Meta has since subleased some of the space and currently owns or leases approximately 1.86 million square feet, according to a Meta spokesperson.
New Office Celebrations
The ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday featured CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy; co-founder and president of product Benoit Dageville; Bellevue office lead and director of engineering Gjorgji Georgievski; Bellevue Mayor Lynn Robinson; and other company and city officials.
“Being able to open an office of this size is both exhilarating and humbling,” Ramaswamy said, as he and others from Snowflake joined the mayor in expressing a desire to continue working and growing together.
“Like the airlines say, ‘We know you could have chosen another city, we’re glad you chose us,’” Robinson said. “For 15 years, the City of Bellevue has been working on making this a place where you would want to be. You are in an innovation ecosystem here where you’re going to fit and you’re going to lead.”
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