Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI Search Infra (Remote)

Rounx Limited; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Cortex AI Search Infrastructure team, building high-performance retrieval engines for Cortex products like CoWork, Cortex Code, and Cortex Agents. The role focuses on designing scalable systems for RAG, semantic indexing, and vector search in a cloud-native environment.

The ideal candidate has 9+ years in distributed systems or backend AI infrastructure, with deep proficiency in Go or Java and Python.

Qualifications

• Minimum 9+ years in distributed systems or backend infrastructure for AI/ML products.
• Proficiency in Go or Java and Python.
• Experience with scalable, high-performance retrieval systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect agentic runtimes and evaluation infrastructure.
• Productionize AI workflows with guardrails and observability.
• Optimize performance and cost for enterprise data processing.

Skills

Go

Java

Python

Distributed systems

High-throughput APIs

Backend infrastructure

Kubernetes

FoundationDB

Vector indices

Data pipelines

Query optimization

Multi-tenant systems

Large-scale search

Tools

Kubernetes

FoundationDB

Job description

Snowflake is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Cortex AI Search Infrastructure team, building high-performance retrieval engines for Cortex products like CoWork, Cortex Code, and Cortex Agents. The role focuses on designing scalable systems for RAG, semantic indexing, and vector search in a cloud-native environment.

The ideal candidate has 9+ years in distributed systems or backend AI infrastructure, with deep proficiency in Go or Java and Python.