# Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform for User Experiences

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, Backend Development, Cloud Infrastructure, AWS, Azure, GCP, Observability, Container Orchestration, APIs
**Posted:** 2026-05-29

> Senior engineer building scalable backend services, Kubernetes infrastructure, and AI-powered developer tooling for Snowflake's user-facing applications and internal AI coding agent.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and platform infrastructure that power Snowflake’s user-facing applications.
- Contribute across the full development lifecycle, from technical design and implementation to testing, deployment, and operational excellence.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features and platform capabilities.
- Drive improvements to system reliability, scalability, performance, and developer productivity.
- Participate in architecture and design discussions, helping shape technical direction and engineering best practices.
- Build and operate cloud-native infrastructure and services running on Kubernetes.
- Improve deployment, observability, and operational workflows for services running in containerized environments.
- Debug and resolve complex production issues across distributed systems, Kubernetes infrastructure, and platform services.
- Build and enhance internal tools, including our coding agent/orchestrator, to create AI-assisted workflows that enable self-serve building of production features end-to-end on the platform through prompts.
- Contribute to a strong engineering culture through code reviews, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and operational ownership.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of experience designing and building large-scale distributed or user-facing systems in production environments.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience building highly reliable, scalable backend systems.
- Experience building and operating services on Kubernetes in production environments.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, service reliability, and observability.
- Experience with distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, or developer platforms.
- Strong coding and debugging skills, with the ability to navigate complex system architectures.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across teams.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent practical experience.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

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