engineering
Posted May 1Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, Monitoring & Alerting
at Snowflake
On-site
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 is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, engineered for enterprise scale.
- The Monitoring & Alerting team owns one of the most mission-critical products in observability, sitting at the intersection of AI, platform engineering, and customer-facing use cases.
- YOU WILL: - Drive high-impact features end-to-end: from anomaly detection and compound monitor logic to simple alerting workflows, owning scope, architecture, and delivery - Design and scale the monitoring and alerting pipeline to support high concurrency and high-throughput SQL workloads, ensuring reliability for hundreds of terabytes of telemetry processed daily - Own the full product surface of the monitoring system, iterating on backend behavior, AI agent interactions, and pipeline internals based on
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading technical design decisions - BS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- experience building or working on observability, monitoring, or alerting systems - Familiarity with AI/ML-driven workflows such as anomaly detection, AI-assisted tooling, or intelligent automation -
- Experience with large-scale data platforms including Snowflake, data lakes, or streaming systems - Hands-on
- experience with high-concurrency SQL workloads or query optimization - Background in event-driven architectures, distributed queues, or streaming pipelines - Prior
- experience in a high-growth startup or fast-paced product environment WHY JOIN OUR MONITORING & ALERTING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? The Monitoring & Alerting team is where AI, platform scale, and customer impact converge.
- Every engineer touches the product, gets direct exposure to customer feedback, and is expected to iterate rapidly on backend pipelines, AI interactions, and use case quality.
- You'll work at the intersection of challenging platform engineering and practical AI, building anomaly detection, intelligent triage, and unified monitoring across all telemetry types, with startup-style velocity and the global reach of Snowflake behind you.
- 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: - Prior
- 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.
- Every decision you make directly shapes whether engineering teams detect and resolve incidents faster or get paged unexpectedly at 2 a.m.
- experience owning and delivering medium-sized projects end-to-end with minimal guidance -
- Leading engineering organizations at companies like Capital One, Topgolf, and Dialpad rely on Observe to troubleshoot hundreds of terabytes of telemetry daily.
- Alerting is the most mission-critical feature in observability: getting it wrong means your customers get paged in the middle of the night.
- Getting it right means they never miss a critical incident.
- What makes this team distinct is the breadth of ownership.
- 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.