Software Engineer

About the role

The Apps & Experiences (AppEx) organization powers the unified user experience (Snowsight) for Snowflake. Every major Snowflake customer interacts with our platform through these surfaces, making AppEx central to both customer satisfaction and revenue growth. Within Appex, our team sits at the intersection of AI, platform, and user experience. We are on a mission to create an AI-first, scalable, maintainable, and extensible platform to build all Snowflake user experience features.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-first platforms, tools, and best practices to significantly enhance the developer experience for Snowsight
• Drive strategy and initiatives to improve agentic development workflows and build infrastructure to support 10x increases in developer productivity
• Improve platform reliability by investing in observability, alerting, SLOs, and automated remediation across our systems
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions
• Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards

Requirements

• Strong passion for making developers highly productive
• Passion for AI-first processes and for building platforms that enable many teams to move faster while keeping systems maintainable and safe
• Experience with or strong interest in AI or LLM-based applications (agents, prompt/tool engineering, evals, or productionized AI features)
• Experience working on enterprise-grade build systems
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Fluency in Go, Java, or Python
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers
• A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Outstanding written and oral English language skills

Qualifications

• Ability to work on-site at our Bellevue, WA or Menlo Park, CA offices

Skills

• Strong passion for making developers highly productive
• Passion for AI-first processes and for building platforms that enable many teams to move faster while keeping systems maintainable and safe
• Experience with or strong interest in AI or LLM-based applications (agents, prompt/tool engineering, evals, or productionized AI features)
• Experience working on enterprise-grade build systems
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Fluency in Go, Java, or Python
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers
• A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Outstanding written and oral English language skills

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Flexible spending & health savings account
• at least 12 paid holidays
• paid time off
• parental leave
• employee assistance program
• and other company benefits

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $230,000. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan. The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Schedule

This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes:

• medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• flexible spending & health savings account
• at least 12 paid holidays
• paid time off
• parental leave
• employee assistance program
• and other company benefits