Principal Software Engineer - Observability

US-CA-Menlo ParkFull-time2026-11-06 → 2026-11-09

Core

Architect and build an AI-driven observability platform to help customers and engineers detect, diagnose, and resolve issues in distributed systems at scale.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (Distributed Systems & AI)

Builds

Telemetry, analytics, and diagnostic platform for Snowflake's AI Data Cloud

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, AI/ML

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems architecture, Java/Go/C++, Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), AI-first engineering, Product ownership, Mentoring

Preferred skills

Observability platforms, OpenTelemetry, Time-series/columnar storage, AIOps, Agentic diagnosis systems

Technologies

OpenTelemetry, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Java, Go, C++

About Snowflake

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. 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. 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. At Snowf