Senior Software Engineer, Cortex Quality

What this role involves

Snowflake is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for Cortex Quality, focusing on the quality and efficiency of their coding agent Cortex Code. The role involves owning agent quality end to end, building eval harnesses, debugging production failures, and optimizing cost and latency. Requirements include 6+ years of experience, fluency in Python, TypeScript, or Go, and a measurement-first mindset.

Skills this posting asks for

• python
• typescript
• go
• ai
• llm
• eval harnesses
• llm observability
• prompt caching
• context compaction
• tool-result offloading
• model routing
• data pipelines
• agentic coding tools

Requirements

• 6 years of experience
• Level: senior

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…