# Senior Software Engineer - Observe Data Management

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, C++, Distributed Systems, AWS, Azure, OpenTelemetry, Apache Iceberg, Stream Processing, Systems Programming, Data Pipelines
**Posted:** 2026-04-20

> Builds and scales petabyte-scale data ingestion pipelines for observability platform using Go/C++ on AWS/Azure. Requires 5+ years in distributed systems, strong systems programming, and cloud experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines handling petabyte-scale telemetry — logs, metrics, traces, and events
- Develop performance-critical, distributed systems components in Go and/or C++ that operate reliably across AWS and Azure
- Contribute to OpenTelemetry and drive Observe's open-source strategy, including external community engagement and upstream contributions
- Architect solutions that maintain enterprise-grade availability and low latency under extreme data volumes
- Collaborate with SRE, product, and platform teams to define data reliability standards and improve detection-to-resolution times for customers
- Debug and resolve complex distributed systems issues at the deepest layers of the stack
- Help shape the technical roadmap for the Data Management team and mentor engineers across the organization

## Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems
- Proficiency in Go and/or C++, with an ability to write high-performance, production-grade systems code
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale data ingestion or stream processing pipelines
- A strong sense of user empathy and product intuition — you think beyond APIs and care about end-to-end data onboarding and management experience
- Hands-on experience building and running services across major cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure)
- Strong fundamentals in systems programming: concurrency, memory management, networking, and I/O
- A track record of solving hard infrastructure or platform engineering problems at scale
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with OpenTelemetry SDKs, instrumentation, or ecosystem tooling
- Prior open-source contributions or project maintainership
- Familiarity with Apache Iceberg or other open table formats and data lakehouse architectures
- Background in observability, monitoring, or SRE
- Experience with multi-cloud data infrastructure or telemetry platforms at petabyte scale

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