Frontend AI Principal Engineer — Equity & High‑Impact UI

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

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.