Senior SWE, AI Backend: Observe by Snowflake
200k – 288kMenlo Park, CAOnsite7+ YOE
Summary
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.
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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