Senior Software Engineer (Observe by Snowflake, Workflow)

• We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Workflow team within Observe by Snowflake
• This team owns the core user experience layer—dashboards, worksheets, and the surface-level interfaces through which customers explore, query, and act on their observability data
• You’ll build the systems that make complex data feel intuitive and reliable at scale
• Design and build scalable, high-quality backend features that power the dashboards and data visualization tools our customers depend on every day
• Analyze, improve, and maintain the performance, scalability, and availability of large-scale distributed systems and query processing engines
• Lead technical scoping and design reviews; proactively identify architectural bottlenecks in workflow systems and drive solutions that scale
• Partner closely with Frontend, Logs, and APM engineering teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end platform experiences
• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate customer needs into well-defined roadmap items and executable engineering plans
• Own the full delivery lifecycle—from requirements and design through coding, testing, and production observability

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- The ability to take complex, ambiguous customer requirements and translate them into reliable, maintainable software
• A Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline—or equivalent professional experience
• Proficiency in Go, or demonstrated expertise in another high-performance systems programming language
• Proven experience designing and building user-facing features for distributed, production-scale architectures
• Strong foundations in computer science: data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems principles
• Comfort working across the backend/frontend boundary—collaborating with and sometimes influencing frontend engineering decisions
• Experience building backend APIs and services for dashboarding, reporting, or data visualization platforms
• Familiarity with query languages, data processing systems, or large-scale observability platforms
• Experience leading medium-to-large technical projects and mentoring earlier-career engineers while staying hands-on