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SnowflakeSnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer building AI-first developer platforms and tooling for Snowflake's Snowsight UX. Requires 12+ years building tools for large codebases, experience with AI/LLMs, fluency in Go/Java/Python, and strong distributed systems fundamentals.

236k – 339k/yr
Hybrid12+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You Will Do

  • Design and build AI-first platforms, tools, and best practices to significantly enhance the developer experience for Snowsight.
  • Drive strategy and initiatives to improve agentic development workflows and build infrastructure to support 10x increases in developer productivity.
  • Improve platform reliability by investing in observability, alerting, SLOs, and automated remediation across our systems.
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups to drive end-to-end solutions.
  • Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
  • 12+ years industry experience developing tools for large codebases.
  • Passion for AI-first processes and for building platforms that enable many teams to move faster while keeping systems maintainable and safe.
  • Experience with or strong interest in AI or LLM-based applications (agents, prompt/tool engineering, evals, or productionized AI features).
  • Experience working on enterprise-grade build systems.
  • Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
  • Fluency in Go, Java, or Python.
  • Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
  • A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
  • Outstanding written and oral English language skills.
  • Ability to work on-site at our Bellevue, WA or Menlo Park, CA offices.

Skills

GoJavaPythonAILLMsbuild systemsDistributed SystemsObservabilityslosPrompt Engineering

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