Principal Software Engineer - AI Platforms & Scale

Snowflake; Poland; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for our AI team. This role focuses on delivering a scalable AI Functions portfolio and guiding how customers build AI ETL pipelines on data across multi-cloud environments.

We value deep expertise in AI/ML, NLP, and distributed systems, along with senior leadership to drive reliability, performance, and cross-team collaboration at scale within Snowflake.

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 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

AI/ML

NLP

Distributed systems

Python

Java

C

C++

Go

Cross-team collaboration

Product manager collaboration

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related

Tools

Python

Java

C

C++

Go

Job description

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for our AI team. This role focuses on delivering a scalable AI Functions portfolio and guiding how customers build AI ETL pipelines on data across multi-cloud environments.

We value deep expertise in AI/ML, NLP, and distributed systems, along with senior leadership to drive reliability, performance, and cross-team collaboration at scale within Snowflake.