Senior Software Engineer (AI Backend: Observe by Snowflake)

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans
• Health savings accounts
• Robust retirement plans
• Life and disability insurance
• Weekly online lunch and learns
• Virtual workout classes
• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
• On-demand mental health and wellness programs
• Fertility benefits and family planning resources
• Generous time-off and various leave plans
• Onsite and Remote Work
• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Quarterly bonus or commission program- 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
• 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
• 7+ years of backend engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems at scale
• 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