Snowflake Computing

Senior SWE, AI Backend: Observe by Snowflake

Snowflake Computing$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at scale
  • Strong computer science fundamentals across APIs, data infrastructure, and distributed systems
  • Expertise in Go, with proficiency in TypeScript and Python
  • Familiarity with evaluations or LLM quality measurement
  • Strong product sense connecting backend decisions to user outcomes

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend systems powering Observe's AI product layer
  • Own services end-to-end from design through production reliability
  • Integrate strong product intuition into technical decisions
  • Collaborate closely with product managers and AI/ML engineers to deliver quality systems
  • Contribute to shaping product direction based on user and agent outcomes

Benefits

  • Grow your career within a rapidly scaling company
  • Work within a small, fast-moving team
  • Leverage the global operational excellence and resources of Snowflake
  • Engage in impactful work that aids engineering teams daily
  • Enjoy a startup-style environment with considerable ownership
Full Job Description
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.

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.

The Team

On the AI Backend team at Observe by Snowflake you'll be at the forefront of how AI is reshaping the way engineering teams operate; building the platform that powers intelligent, automated workflows across observability and beyond. Our team is small, and moves fast, with real ownership over hard problems that span agentic APIs, real-time pipelines, and AI quality. You'll work alongside talented engineers across ML, product, and backend, with the reach and resources of Snowflake behind you. If you want to make a direct impact on a product that engineering teams rely on every day, we'd love to hear from you.

In this role you will
  • Design and build backend systems that power Observe's AI product layer from context resolution APIs to real-time alert-to-agent pipelines
  • Own services end-to-end across design, implementation, and production reliability
  • Bring strong product intuition to technical decisions; understanding how your work connects to user and agent outcomes, and contribute to shaping what gets built
  • Collaborate closely with product managers and AI/ML engineers to ship high-quality, well-designed systems in a fast-moving environment


Qualifications
  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at scale
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and backend engineering depth across APIs, data infrastructure, and distributed systems
  • Fluency in Go, with the ability to work across TypeScript and Python
  • Familiarity with evals or LLM quality measurement and the ability to apply them as part of your day-to-day engineering workflow
  • Strong product sense; you understand how backend decisions connect to user outcomes and can engage meaningfully on product direction

Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. 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.

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 benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

About Snowflake Computing

Snowflake is a cloud-based data-warehousing company that was founded in 2012. The company provides a data platform that allows customers to store and analyze data using cloud-based infrastructure. Snowflake's platform is designed to be highly scalable and flexible, allowing customers to easily add or remove computing resources as needed. The company's customers include a wide range of businesses, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Snowflake has received significant funding from investors and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States.
Learn more about Snowflake Computing
Size
2,037 employees
Market Cap
$44.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$539.1 million
Founded
2012
Revenue
$592 million
NASDAQ

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