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SnowflakeSnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Senior SWE, AI Backend: Observe by Snowflake

Builds backend systems powering Observe's AI observability platform, including context resolution APIs and real-time pipelines. Requires 7+ years backend experience, fluency in Go/TypeScript/Python, and familiarity with LLM quality measurement.

200k – 288k/yr
On-site7+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend systems that power Observe's AI product layer from context resolution APIs to real-time alert-to-agent pipelines
  • Own services end-to-end across design, implementation, and production reliability
  • Bring strong product intuition to technical decisions; understanding how your work connects to user and agent outcomes, and contribute to shaping what gets built
  • Collaborate closely with product managers and AI/ML engineers to ship high-quality, well-designed systems in a fast-moving environment

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at scale
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and backend engineering depth across APIs, data infrastructure, and distributed systems
  • Fluency in Go, with the ability to work across TypeScript and Python
  • Familiarity with evals or LLM quality measurement and the ability to apply them as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow
  • Strong product sense; you understand how backend decisions connect to user outcomes and can engage meaningfully on product direction

Skills

GoTypeScriptPythonAPIsDistributed SystemsData InfrastructureLlm EvalsReal-Time PipelinesContext Resolution ApisProduction Systems

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