Snowflake
Technology
SeniorSoftwareEngineer
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“Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake. Skills: Observability, Distributed systems, AI driven diagnostics, Telemetry. Design and build large scale telemetry pipelines. Ingest, process, and analyze metrics, logs, and traces”
Industry & Context.
Problem solving; Root cause analysis; Debugging
Follow confidentiality and security standards, Abide by data security plan
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years of experience in software engineering, Deep experience building and operating large scale cloud services, Programming skills in Java, Scala, C++, or Python, Solid understanding of system performance, debugging, and reliability engineering principles, Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, Proven ability to lead complex technical projects, Ability to influence architecture decisions, Problem solving skills, Ability to work in a fast paced environment
Nice to Have
Experience designing telemetry systems, Experience with metrics, logging, and distributed tracing
What You'll Do.
Design and build large scale telemetry pipelines
Architect AI driven observability systems
Leverage machine learning for anomaly detection
Leverage machine learning for root cause analysis
Leverage machine learning for predictive insights
Partner with Snowflake teams to embed observability
Define and drive standards for instrumentation
Define and drive standards for tracing
Define and drive standards for telemetry
Build tools and platforms for visibility
Empower engineers with deep visibility
Optimize observability systems for high scale
Optimize observability systems for low latency
Optimize observability systems for cost efficiency
Provide technical leadership
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Snowflake teams
Full 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. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. We are looking for a Senior Engineer in Observability to help define and build the next generation of AI powered observability for Snowflake’s global data platform. This role sits at the intersection of large scale distributed systems, telemetry pipelines, and machine intelligence, enabling engineers and customers to understand, diagnose, and optimize complex workloads in real time. You will play a key role in evolving Snowflake’s observability stack into an intelligent, autonomous system that not only detects issues but predicts and prevents them. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Design and build large scale telemetry pipelines that ingest, process, and analyze metrics, logs, and traces across Snowflake’s multi cloud platform - Architect AI driven observability systems that leverage machine learning for anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and predictive insights - Partner with Snowflake teams to embed observability deeply into all layers of the platform - Define and drive
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