SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Gavroche; Menlo Park (CA); Remote; USD 221,000 - 288,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain AI/ML observability systems and backend infrastructure for large-scale data processing.

You will implement techniques for ML model monitoring and data movement, lead ML infrastructure enhancements, and contribute to scalable Generative AI capabilities while ensuring performance and reliability. Telecommuting permitted.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science/IT/EE or related field, plus five years of progressive experience.
• Experience designing and building database systems, compilers, and developer tools.
• Experience developing applications in Java.
• Proficiency with SQL and other database technologies, including internal components.
• Experience designing data warehouses and large-scale data processing solutions.
• Contributing to ASF open-source projects in big data or Hadoop ecosystems is a plus.
• Experience with implementation, testing, debugging, documentation, and compiler design tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain core AI/ML observability infrastructure and backend for large-scale data processing.
• Implement and optimize techniques such as sketch-based data aggregation and ML metrics for monitoring ML/Generative AI models.
• Develop and enhance ML infrastructure for training, deployment, and monitoring at scale.
• Build platform features enabling scalable ML/Generative AI use cases with improved performance and reliability.
• Serve as technical lead for ML observability, data infrastructure, and model explainability for customer-facing AI products.

Skills

Database systems

Compilers & tools

Java development

SQL databases

Data warehousing

Open source contribs

Compiler design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

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.

Job Location: 135 Constitution Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025.

ELT: Engineering

REQ ID: ASHREQ-8246

Joining this team means architecting the performance, scalability, and service infrastructure that will empower the world's largest enterprises to seamlessly govern their transactional and analytical data in one place. If you are passionate about building industry-leading technologies that solve real-world scale and performance problems, this is the place to be. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our core product: an elastic, large-scale, high-performance data processing system. We are looking for smart, enthusiastic engineers who can quickly master complex technical areas and are passionate about building new, industry-leading technologies.

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER (MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE) AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

Design, develop, and maintain core components of AI/ML observability systems, including backend infrastructure for largescale data processing, storage, and data movement. Implement and optimize highly specialized techniques such as sketch based data aggregation and machine learning metrics to support accurate monitoring and evaluation of ML and Generative AI models. Develop and enhance AI/ML infrastructure to support reliable training, deployment, and monitoring of machine learning workloads at scale. Build and extend platform features that enable scalable ML and Generative AI use cases while improving performance, reliability, and resource efficiency. Serve as a technical lead for the design and implementation of machine learning observability, data infrastructure, and model explainability capabilities supporting customer-facing ML and Generative AI products. Telecommuting permitted.

Minimum Requirements for Position:

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering or a related field, and five (5) years of progressive post baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Education or experience must include:

• Designing and building database systems, compilers, and developer tools;

• Building enterprise-grade, reliable, and trustworthy software and services;

• Developing applications using Java;

• Using SQL and other database technologies, including implementing internal database components;

• Designing data warehouses, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions;

• Contributing to ASF open-source projects, including big data and Hadoop ecosystem initiatives; and

• Performing implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation, and design query compilation and compiler systems.

The base salary range for this role is $221,187 - $287,500

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.

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