Principal Software Engineer

What this role involves

This Principal Software Engineer role at Snowflake focuses on building AI-first developer platforms and tooling for the Snowsight experience. The position requires 12+ years of experience, fluency in Go, Java, or Python, and on-site work in Bellevue, WA or Menlo Park, CA. The team owns the serving layer, developer tooling, frontend infrastructure, CI pipelines, testing, and observability.

Skills this posting asks for

• go
• java
• python
• ai
• llm
• agents
• prompt engineering
• tool engineering
• evals
• build systems
• distributed systems
• observability
• alerting
• slos
• automated remediation
• developer tooling
• frontend infrastructure
• ci pipelines
• testing
• monitoring
• logging

Requirements

• 12 years of experience
• Level: principal
• Remote policy: onsite

From the employer’s posting

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 collabor…