Staff Software Engineer, Cortex AI Infrastructure
Core
Building high-performance backend infrastructure to orchestrate agentic AI workflows, RAG systems, and enterprise AI products like Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Agents.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (AI Infrastructure)
Builds
Agentic runtimes, high-throughput context retrieval systems, evaluation engines, and productionized AI microservices.
Domain
Enterprise AI, Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Java, Python, distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, cloud-native architecture, Kubernetes, vector databases, RAG, semantic caching, multi-tenant system design
Preferred skills
SQL engine internals, large-scale search infrastructure, token optimization, prompt caching
Responsibilities
Architect agentic runtimes for complex workflows; design high-performance RAG and context retrieval systems; build automated evaluation and experimentation pipelines; productionize AI workflows into multi-tenant microservices; optimize performance and cost for model routing and token usage.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with architectural influence