Staff Software Engineer, AI-Powered Billing Platform

Snowflake Inc.; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Billing Platform in Menlo Park. You will join a cross-functional team shaping how usage is metered, rated, and invoiced across Snowflake services, including Cortex AI and AI-native offerings.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, drive reliability, and mentor engineers while partnering with Product, Finance, and Legal to deliver auditable, scalable billing systems.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems (10+ years).
• Strong SQL fluency, schema design, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in one or more of Java, Scala, Python, or Go, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with data modeling and large-scale data systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive multi-team initiatives from ambiguous business problems through design, launch and operation.
• Build billing systems that meter, rate, and invoice usage across Snowflake services.
• Shape how Snowflake meters, prices, and bills AI products including Cortex AI and Snowflake Intelligence.
• Own reliability and correctness; participate in on-call and drive systemic fixes.
• Mentor senior engineers and review designs; write designs for engineering and Finance.

Skills

Distributed systems

SQL

Programming languages

Data modeling

System reliability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS or related field

Tools

Java

Scala

Python

Go

CI/CD

Job description

Snowflake Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Billing Platform in Menlo Park. You will join a cross-functional team shaping how usage is metered, rated, and invoiced across Snowflake services, including Cortex AI and AI-native offerings.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, drive reliability, and mentor engineers while partnering with Product, Finance, and Legal to deliver auditable, scalable billing systems.