Principal Software Engineer - AI Poland

Snowflake; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 300,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its AI team to build the AI Functions portfolio and scale distributed platforms across the Snowflake platform. You will shape decisions, collaborate across teams, and ensure reliable, high-performance services for customers.

The role requires deep AI/ML expertise, strong CS fundamentals, and hands-on experience with large-scale systems in production. Join a fast-moving, high-impact environment at Snowflake.

Qualifications

• 14+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale systems in production.
• Deep interest in AI/ML and NLP space.
• End-to-end customer facing product experience.
• Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems; fluent in Python or Java.

Responsibilities

• Build customer facing AI Functions portfolio of products.
• Design and implement highly scalable distributed platforms within the Snowflake platform.
• Contribute to technical and business decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with engineers across teams on cross-functional initiatives.
• Ensure services meet reliability, availability and performance commitments.

Skills

AI/ML

NLP

Distributed systems

Python/Java

C/C++/Go

Cross-functional collaboration

Reliability & performance

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors

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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