engineering
Posted May 7Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, Logs
at Snowflake
On-site
Responsibilities
- - Drive technical direction for log ingestion, storage, querying, and enrichment pipelines capable of handling hundreds of terabytes of telemetry daily.
- - Build for both humans and AI agents — design APIs and workflows that work equally well for UI users and programmatic access by AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor.
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 of production issue and resolution 10x faster.
- YOU WILL: - Lead the backend architecture and delivery of the Logs product area by owning the full lifecycle from API design through production reliability, with a strong sense of what makes a great end-user experience.
- - Champion the use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to maintain high code quality and accelerate delivery.
- experience building and maintaining high-scale backend systems in production. - Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or a comparable systems-oriented language; comfort working across the stack when needed. - Deep
- experience designing and operating distributed systems — familiarity with streaming pipelines, columnar storage, or log/event processing is a strong plus. - Demonstrated product acumen: you can read a PRD critically, push back on
- Experience building observability or log management systems (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Loki, OpenTelemetry). -
- Experience with query DSLs, CEL, or similar expression evaluation frameworks. - Prior
- experience in a tech lead or staff engineer capacity on a product-focused 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.
Experience
- QUALIFICATIONS: - 7+ years of industry
Benefits
- requirements that don't serve users, and propose simpler solutions without sacrificing outcomes. - Track record of leading end-to-end feature delivery in close partnership with cross-functional teams (PM, Design, Frontend). - Strong written and verbal communication — you can explain technical decisions to non-engineers and influence roadmap priorities with data and reasoning. BONUS POINTS: -
- 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.
- As part of Snowflake, Observe combines startup-style ownership and velocity with the global reach, operational excellence, and ecosystem of one of the world’s leading data platforms. IN THIS ROLE
- - Partner deeply with PMs, Frontend, and Design to shape the product roadmap, translate user needs into sound technical designs, and identify backend capabilities that unlock high-value product experiences.
- - Champion product thinking on the engineering team — bring clarity to trade-offs, flag gaps in requirements, and proactively surface opportunities to simplify or improve the product.
- - Set the technical bar through code reviews, architecture reviews, and mentorship, establishing patterns that scale across the broader backend organization.
- Experience operating data lakehouses under high performance and high scale. -
- 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.