Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Developer Tools

Snowflake; Zürich; On-site; CHF 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake’s Observe team seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity to empower engineering groups by building scalable developer tools, robust build and test infra, and automated release systems. You will work at the intersection of developer experience, AI agent systems, and cloud infrastructure to accelerate velocity and reliability at scale.

You will design and optimize internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and agent-based workflows, while collaborating with cross-functional

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on engineering productivity.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems, build orchestration tools (e.g., Bazel, Nix, Go build tooling), and test automation infrastructure.
• Strong proficiency in server-side languages such as Go, Python, Java, or C++.
• Hands-on experience with containerization, cloud infrastructure, and release automation.
• Deep interest in developer experience, developer velocity metrics, and building developer-facing products.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agent based developer workflows.
• Build and scale test infrastructure and test execution frameworks to accelerate developer feedback loops.
• Improve developer velocity, developer and agent environment tooling, as well as local debugging/testing workflows.
• Partner with development, infrastructure, and SRE teams to streamline release engineering, deployment reliability, and artifact management.
• Monitor and optimize build times, test flakiness, and CI performance across the engineering organization.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering productivity

Developer tooling

Agentic workflows

Build systems

Release engineering

Tools

Bazel

Nix

Go build tooling

Kubernetes

Job description

Snowflake’s Observe team seeks a Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity to empower engineering groups by building scalable developer tools, robust build and test infra, and automated release systems. You will work at the intersection of developer experience, AI agent systems, and cloud infrastructure to accelerate velocity and reliability at scale.

You will design and optimize internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and agent-based workflows, while collaborating with cross-functional