Senior AI-First Platform Engineer

Snowflake

Menlo Park (CA)

On-site

USD 250,000 - 380,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

HSA/FSA

12 paid holidays

Paid time off

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design AI-first platforms and improve developer productivity for Snowsight. You will architect scalable tooling, drive 10x increases in efficiency, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality, observable systems.

With 12+ years in large codebase tooling and a passion for AI-first approaches, you will mentor engineers and shape platform reliability, ensuring maintainable and safe systems while advancing Snowflake’s enterprise-grade

Qualifications

12+ years of industry experience building tools for large codebases.
Strong background in AI-first processes and scalable platform design.
Experience with or interest in AI/LLM-based applications (agents, evals, tooling).
Experience with enterprise-grade build systems.

Responsibilities

Design and build AI-first platforms, tools, and best practices to enhance developer experience for Snowsight.
Drive strategy to improve agentic development workflows and scalability of developer productivity.
Improve platform reliability via observability, SLOs, and automated remediation.
Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams on end-to-end solutions.
Contribute to engineering processes, tooling, and standards.