engineering
Posted Apr 20Senior Software Engineer - Observe Data Management
at Snowflake
Remote
Requirements
- To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.
- You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
- Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud and engineered for scale.
- We ingest and store logs, metrics, traces, and events on an open, scalable data lakehouse using open formats like Apache Iceberg — at dramatically lower cost.
- A dynamic Context Graph and chat-based AI SRE provide rich context and automated workflows so teams can move from detection to root cause and resolution 10x faster.
- YOU WILL: - Design, build, and scale high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines handling petabyte-scale telemetry — logs, metrics, traces, and events - Develop performance-critical, distributed systems components in Go and/or C++ that operate reliably across AWS and Azure - Contribute to OpenTelemetry and drive Observe's open-source strategy, including external community engagement and upstream contributions - Architect solutions that maintain enterprise-grade availability and low latency
- experience with deep expertise in distributed systems - Proficiency in Go and/or C++, with an ability to write high-performance, production-grade systems code - Demonstrated
- experience designing and operating large-scale data ingestion or stream processing pipelines - A strong sense of user empathy and product intuition — you think beyond APIs and care about end-to-end data onboarding and management experience. - Hands-on
- experience building and running services across major cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure) - Strong fundamentals in systems programming: concurrency, memory management, networking, and I/O - A track record of solving hard infrastructure or platform engineering problems at scale - B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience with OpenTelemetry SDKs, instrumentation, or ecosystem tooling - Prior open-source contributions or project maintainership - Familiarity with Apache Iceberg or other open table formats and data lakehouse architectures - Background in observability, monitoring, or SRE -
- Experience with multi-cloud data infrastructure or telemetry platforms at petabyte scale WHY JOIN OUR OBSERVE TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? The Observe team is building the future of AI-powered observability — from the ground up, at a scale few engineering teams ever touch.
- And as part of Snowflake, you'll do it with the backing of one of the world's leading data platforms, while still moving with the velocity and ownership culture of a focused product team.
- Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
- Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth.
Benefits
- BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING: -
- How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and
Contact
- benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com
Additional details
- At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
- We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results.
- Leading engineering teams at companies like Capital One, Topgolf, and Dialpad rely on Observe to troubleshoot hundreds of terabytes of telemetry daily while maintaining reliability at enterprise scale.
- This team owns the core pipelines that ingest and process over 1 petabyte of telemetry data per day — the foundational infrastructure powering Observe's entire observability stack.
- You'll be working at the intersection of massive scale, open-source innovation, and real-world reliability challenges for enterprise customers around the globe.
- You'll have genuine ownership over systems that ingest and make sense of a petabyte of data per day, with a direct line from your work to the reliability and speed of enterprise customers who depend on Observe every hour of every day.
- How do you want to make your impact? Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
- It is every employee’s duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
- 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.