# Senior SWE, AI Backend: Observe by Snowflake

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Go, TypeScript, Python, APIs, Distributed Systems, Data Infrastructure, Llm Evals, Real-Time Pipelines, Context Resolution Apis, Production Systems
**Posted:** 2026-04-17

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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