Frontend AI Principal Engineer - Cortex Code

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 264,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays and time off

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking an exceptionally experienced Frontend AI Principal Engineer to design, build, and lead the CoCo coding agent experiences. You will architect across the product surface, collaborate with design, product, and data teams, and deliver scalable, high-performance web UIs for enterprise data workflows.

You will work on modern web architectures, contribute to agentic SDLC, and mentor engineers while shaping the next generation of data tooling.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in product web UI application development and shipping world class experiences.
• Experience with agentic systems and/or coding agents.
• Experience with Agentic SDLC – Building and deploying rich experiences with agents.
• Experience contributing to interactive dashboards and visualization platforms and/or rich data visualization.
• Distributed system development experience is a big plus.
• Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance and scale.
• Experience in the software development lifecycle process, including analysis and design, APIs, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects.
• Experience in modern technologies such as javascript, typescript, react, angular, node.
• Experience with Electron, VS code tools/libraries is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build exceptional experiences, ensuring the highest level of polish, creativity, and interaction to solve complex customer problems.
• Define the architectural vision for the CoCo coding agent platform and ensure consistency of design abstractions across the entire product surface
• Develop innovative platform offerings, with a global mindset, and to operate across regional boundaries
• Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design, product management.
• Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams such as data sharing, cloud infrastructure, and cross-region replication.
• Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
• Motivate others to act, creating a compelling vision for the future, communicating clearly, and using a collaborative leadership approach.
• Build for scale and high performance.

Skills

Frontend development

Agentic systems

Agentic SDLC

Data visualization

Distributed systems

Web architecture

APIs

Leadership

JavaScript

TypeScript

React

Angular

Node.js

Tools

VS Code

Electron

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.

How do you make the world's most powerful coding agent for data a delight to use? We are the fastest growing software company at this scale in history and looking to push that to new heights by building the best coding agent in the industry.

The Cortex Code (CoCo) team is building the future of coding agents for working with data. See our flagship product in action: CoCo Desktop in Action.

AS THE FRONTEND AI PRINCIPAL ENGINEER YOU WILL:

• Design and build exceptional experiences, ensuring the highest level of polish, creativity, and interaction to solve complex customer problems.
• Define the architectural vision for the CoCo coding agent platform and ensure consistency of design abstractions across the entire product surface
• Develop innovative platform offerings, with a global mindset, and to operate across regional boundaries
• Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design, product management.
• Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams such as data sharing, cloud infrastructure, and cross-region replication.
• Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
• Motivate others to act, creating a compelling vision for the future, communicating clearly, and using a collaborative leadership approach.
• Build for scale and high performance.

OUR IDEAL FRONTEND AI PRINCIPAL ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• Significant software development experience, including 15+ years of experience in product web UI application development and shipping world class experiences.
• Experience with agentic systems and/or coding agents.
• Experience with Agentic SDLC – Building and deploying rich experiences with agents.
• Experience contributing to interactive dashboards and visualization platforms and/or rich data visualization.
• Distributed system development experience is a big plus.
• Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance and scale.
• Experience in the software development lifecycle process, including analysis and design, APIs, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management
• Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects.
• Experience in modern technologies such as javascript, typescript, react, angular, node.
• Experience with Electron, VS code tools/libraries is a plus.

WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

BUILDING CUTTING EDGE CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES IS COMPLEX, AND OUR ENGINEERING TEAM SURMOUNTS THE OBSTACLES. AS A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, YOU WILL:

• Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.
• Create intuitive, elegant, and accessible user interfaces that make a powerful and highly technical product simple to use.
• Learn about and contribute to:
• Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.
• Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
• User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.
• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

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?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $264,000 - $379,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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