Snowflake

Technology

SeniorSoftwareEngineer

$200–288k Menlo Park, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake. Skills: Distributed systems, Observability, AI driven diagnostics. Design telemetry pipelines. Build telemetry pipelines”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Problem solving skills; Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

7+ years of experience, Deep experience building large scale cloud services, Programming skills in Java, Scala, C++, or Python, Solid understanding of system performance, Solid understanding of debugging, Solid understanding of reliability engineering principles, Experience with AWS, Experience with Azure, Experience with GCP, Proven ability to lead complex technical projects, Proven 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, Experience with logging, Experience with distributed tracing

What You'll Do.

Design telemetry pipelines

Build telemetry pipelines

Architect AI driven observability systems

Leverage machine learning

Perform root cause analysis

Generate predictive insights

Partner with Snowflake teams

Define standards for instrumentation

Define standards for tracing

Define standards for telemetry

Drive standards for instrumentation

Drive standards for tracing

Drive standards for telemetry

Optimize observability systems

Provide technical leadership

Stay at forefront of industry trends

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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