Principal Software Engineer - AI Poland

Snowflake; Zürich; On-site; CHF 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its AI team. You will design and build AI Functions and scalable distributed platforms that power the Cortex Platform across data in multi-cloud environments.

You will participate in cross-functional initiatives, collaborate with engineers and product managers, and ensure services meet reliability, availability and performance targets at scale.

Qualifications

• 14+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale systems in production.
• Passionate about AI/ML and NLP space.
• Deep multi-faceted appreciation in building end-to-end customer facing products.
• Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems (Fluency in Python, or Java preferred)
• Knowledge of C, C++, Go is a big plus.
• Experience working with cross teams and product managers.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors.

Responsibilities

• Build customer facing AI Functions portfolio of products.
• Design and implement highly scalable distributed platforms within the global Snowflake platform.
• Participate in decision-making processes on technical or business issues.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to help deliver cross-functional initiatives.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

Skills

Cross-team collaboration

Leadership

Problem solving

AI/ML enthusiasm

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related

Tools

Python

Java

C

C++

Go

Job description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.

We are hiring a Principal Software Engineer for our AI team.

Our team delivers an AI Functions product that is the key Cortex Platform feature used by Snowflake customers. We're delivering scalable, governed, managed, powerful and flexible transformation primitives that allow customers to build AI ETL pipelines on all data. We focus on solving the hard research and engineering problems required to make high quality multi-cloud service work. If you enjoy designing and building the AI services that run reliably at scale, this is the team for you.

AS PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN AI & ML YOU WILL:

• Build customer facing AI Functions portfolio of products
• Design and implement highly scalable distributed platforms within the global Snowflake platform.
• Participate in decision-making processes on technical or business issues.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams to help deliver cross-functional initiatives.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 14+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale systems in production.
• Passionate about AI/ML and NLP space
• Deep multi-faceted appreciation in building end-to-end customer facing products.
• Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems (Fluency in Python, or Java preferred)
• Knowledge of C, C++, Go is a big plus.
• Experience working with cross teams and product managers.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

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