AI-First Software Engineer, Data Platform

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible spending & health savings

Paid holidays & PTO

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking AI-native engineers to advance a data platform at the intersection of database internals and practical AI applications. You will help shape AI-driven software synthesis and support customers through critical database transitions.

The team emphasizes curiosity, low ego, and rapid experimentation to deliver robust, scalable solutions and accelerate business impact across Snowflake’s platform.

Qualifications

• 2-7 years of experience in SQL and/or other functional programming languages.
• Solid knowledge of database internals, including query parsing, optimization, and execution.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science: databases, high-performance computing, or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Participate in AI-based development across the full platform, from syntactic and semantic analysis, to wire protocols, and data ingest/egress.
• Collaborate with product managers, solution architects, and field engineering to enable customers make one of the most critical transitions in their database journey.
• Define and improve our engineering processes around AI-based software synthesis workflows.

Skills

SQL

Database internals

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

Job description

Snowflake is seeking AI-native engineers to advance a data platform at the intersection of database internals and practical AI applications. You will help shape AI-driven software synthesis and support customers through critical database transitions.

The team emphasizes curiosity, low ego, and rapid experimentation to deliver robust, scalable solutions and accelerate business impact across Snowflake’s platform.