Principal AI-First Platform & Tools Engineer

Snowflake; United States; On-site; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in the United States to help design AI-first developer platforms and scale Snowsight tooling. You will influence architecture, tooling, and best practices across large codebases.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and focus on reliability, observability, and developer productivity. Office locations include Bellevue, WA or Menlo Park, CA; remote options not stated.

Qualifications

• Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
• 12+ years industry experience developing tools for large codebases.
• Experience with or strong interest in AI or LLM-based applications (agents, prompt/tool engineering, evals, or productionized AI features)
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Fluency in Go, Java, or Python.
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
• A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.
• Outstanding written and oral English language skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-first platforms, tools, and best practices to significantly enhance the developer experience for Snowsight.
• Drive strategy and initiatives to improve agentic development workflows and build infrastructure to support 10x increases in developer productivity
• Improve platform reliability by investing in observability, alerting, SLOs, and automated remediation across our systems.
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions.
• Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

Skills

Developer productivity

Go, Java, or Python

AI/LLM experience

CS fundamentals

Team mentorship

English communication

Job description

Snowflake is seeking a Principal Software Engineer in the United States to help design AI-first developer platforms and scale Snowsight tooling. You will influence architecture, tooling, and best practices across large codebases.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and focus on reliability, observability, and developer productivity. Office locations include Bellevue, WA or Menlo Park, CA; remote options not stated.