Software Engineer for AI-Powered Observability Platform

About the role

Snowflake is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Observe team, building and scaling core features of an AI‑powered observability platform for enterprise customers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and own core APIs and business logic for a high‑performance observability platform.
• Take end‑to‑end ownership from technical scoping and architecture through deployment, ensuring enterprise reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and data teams to deliver fast, actionable insights.
• Partner with SRE and customer‑facing teams to diagnose and resolve production issues using AI‑assisted workflows.

Required profile

• 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend or distributed systems.
• Proven ability to design and ship production systems at scale with high throughput, low latency, and strong reliability.
• Experience working independently and taking ownership of complex technical problems.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a track record of delivering customer‑facing features.

Required skills

• Proficiency in one or more server‑side languages such as Go, Java, Scala, or Python.
• Experience with observability technologies (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger).
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted developer tools or LLM‑integrated workflows (bonus).
• Background in SRE practices, incident response automation, or root‑cause analysis tooling (bonus).