Staff AI Platform Engineer — Architect of Enterprise AI

Snowflake; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for AI Products to lead multi-team initiatives and shape cross-functional architecture. You will define APIs and runtime discovery for enterprise data/assets, while guiding teams toward reliable, scalable AI-enabled experiences.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and platform teams, and contribute hands-on across the stack to ship meaningful customer value at scale.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of large-scale production systems.
• Track record of leading large projects or very complex cross-team efforts from problem definition through architecture, execution, and rollout.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, data sharing, or AI-powered product surfaces with ability to collaborate beyond primary domain.
• Strong backend skills in Java, Go, Python, or similar languages with frontend/UX fluency for end-to-end experiences.
• Experience designing APIs, service architectures, and platform abstractions that scale reliably.
• Comfort working in ambiguity, using data to drive decisions and align stakeholders across teams.
• Strong product/customer instincts and ability to translate needs into technical plans.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including roadmaps and design docs.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of large, complex initiatives spanning multiple teams, turning ambiguous product and platform opportunities into durable technical solutions.
• Shape the architecture for how datasets, applications, semantic assets, and agentic capabilities are shared, discovered, governed, and invoked across Snowflake surfaces and third-party agentic environments.
• Define and evolve the APIs, metadata models, runtime discovery systems, and sharing protocols that make enterprise assets usable by AI agents and developer workflows.
• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and platform teams to deliver high-impact customer experiences that raise the bar for AI-native collaboration on Snowflake.
• Act as a technical owner for critical product areas with a strong focus on service health, quality, customer impact, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Identify systemic issues affecting customer experience or engineering velocity and drive cross-team solutions that endure beyond a single launch or component.
• Use sound engineering judgment to make trade-offs across product value, technical complexity, scalability, and strategic importance, with an eye toward Snowflake’s broader company goals.
• Mentor other engineers, raise the quality bar in code and design reviews, and help develop technical expertise across the team.
• Contribute hands-on across the stack as needed, from backend systems and APIs to user-facing product experiences, in service of shipping meaningful customer value.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

API design

Go / Java / Python

Cross-team leadership

Mentoring engineers

Technical communication

Problem solving

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science

Equivalent practical experience

Job description

Snowflake is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for AI Products to lead multi-team initiatives and shape cross-functional architecture. You will define APIs and runtime discovery for enterprise data/assets, while guiding teams toward reliable, scalable AI-enabled experiences.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with product and platform teams, and contribute hands-on across the stack to ship meaningful customer value at scale.