# Principal Software Engineer

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA, Bellevue, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $236k – $339k/yr
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Go, Java, Python, AI, LLMs, build systems, Distributed Systems, Observability, slos, Prompt Engineering
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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