Senior Software Engineer - Observability

What this role involves

Snowflake is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for their External Observability Platform in Bellevue, WA. The role involves architecting and scaling distributed infrastructure for telemetry data, defining observability standards, and leading technical initiatives. Requires 10+ years of experience in backend distributed systems and a hybrid work schedule.

Skills this posting asks for

• go
• c++
• java
• rust
• terraform
• aws
• azure
• gcp
• distributed systems
• observability
• telemetry
• metrics
• logs
• traces
• time-series data
• high-cardinality metrics
• infrastructure as code

Requirements

• 10 years of experience
• Level: staff
• Remote policy: hybrid

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…