# Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, Workflow

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Distributed Systems, Query Processing, Backend Apis, Data Structures, Algorithms, Data Visualization, Observability, Query Languages, Data Processing Systems, Frontend Collaboration
**Posted:** 2026-08-19

> Build scalable backend systems and user-facing workflow features for Observe by Snowflake’s observability platform. The role requires senior-level software engineering experience, strong distributed-systems foundations, and proficiency in Go or another high-performance systems language.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend features powering customer dashboards and data visualization tools.
- Analyze, improve, and maintain the performance, scalability, and availability of large-scale distributed systems and query-processing engines.
- Lead technical scoping and design reviews; identify architectural bottlenecks and drive scalable solutions.
- Partner with Frontend, Logs, and APM engineering teams on cohesive end-to-end platform experiences.
- Collaborate with Product Managers to translate customer needs into roadmap items and executable engineering plans.
- Own delivery from requirements and design through coding, testing, and production observability.

## Requirements
- Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- Proficiency in Go or expertise in another high-performance systems programming language.
- Experience designing and building user-facing features for distributed, production-scale architectures.
- Strong foundations in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems principles.
- Ability to translate complex, ambiguous customer requirements into reliable, maintainable software.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience building backend APIs and services for dashboarding, reporting, or data visualization platforms.
- Experience collaborating across the backend/frontend boundary and influencing frontend engineering decisions.
- Familiarity with query languages, data processing systems, or large-scale observability platforms.
- Experience leading medium-to-large technical projects and mentoring earlier-career engineers while remaining hands-on.

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