PrincipalEngineer

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. Streamlit in Snowflake (SiS) is our flagship app development platform, enabling data engineers, analysts, and developers to build and deploy interactive, data-driven applications directly within Snowflake. As Principal Engineer for the Streamlit in Snowflake team, you will be the top technical voice shaping how millions of users build and deploy apps on Snowflake's data platform. This role requires a rare combination: deep hands-on engineering expertise in Python/container runtimes, a systems architect's instinct for platform design, and the organizational influence to drive cross-team programs. You will define how SiS evolves from its container-native SPCS runtime and embedding/iframe SDK, to its developer experience, performance at scale, and integration with Snowflake's broader AI and data ecosystem. AS THE PRINCIPAL ENGINEER FOR STREAMLIT IN SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: - Define and own the architectural vision for the SiS platform spanning the SPCS container runtime, the warehouse runtime, the embedding SDK, developer tooling, and the Snowsight integration layer. - Drive the platform's evolution toward its next-generation capabilities building on publicly shipping features like chromeless viewer URLs and IdP integration, and shaping the architectural direction for areas still i