OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 9+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex production systems.
• Direct experience shipping and operating LLM applications, AI agents, or model-backed workflows in production.
• Strong background in distributed systems, service architecture, high-throughput APIs, concurrency, and failure handling.
• Experience building an agent runtime, workflow engine, developer platform, evaluation system, or similar infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate nondeterministic systems without relying on a single aggregate score.
• Fluency in Python and strong proficiency in at least one systems or application language such as Java, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
• Hands-on knowledge of tool calling, structured generation, retrieval, context engineering, prompt management, and model APIs.
• Experience with production observability, including structured traces, replay, metrics, logs, and incident diagnosis.
• Ability to balance agent quality with latency, reliability, security, and inference cost.
• Track record of setting technical direction and delivering results across organizational boundaries.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineering, product, and leadership audiences.

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

• Building evaluation or observability infrastructure for agentic coding, data engineering, or analytics systems.
• Designing human-evaluation programs, scoring rubrics, annotation workflows, or grader-calibration methods.
• Working with multi-agent orchestration, long-running agents, asynchronous workflows, or durable execution.
• Developing synthetic tasks, simulations, adversarial tests, red-team exercises, or safety guardrails.
• Building retrieval systems that use vector search, hybrid search, semantic indexing, ranking, or caching.
• Operating multi-tenant systems that process sensitive enterprise data.
• Working with model training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or feedback-driven optimization.
• Evaluating and onboarding frontier models based on measured product outcomes.
• Experience with databases, SQL engines, data platforms, Kubernetes, or cloud-native infrastructure.

YOU MAY BE A PARTICULARLY GOOD FIT IF YOU:

• Treat evaluation as part of product engineering rather than a final validation step.
• Can move between agent behavior, distributed infrastructure, data analysis, and production debugging.
• Question metrics that do not reconcile and design tests that can expose misleading results.
• Take ownership from early architecture through deployment, operations, and measurable customer outcomes.
• Prefer evidence from representative tasks and production behavior over isolated benchmark results.
• Work effectively in fast-moving environments where requirements develop through experimentation.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

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