Software Systems Engineering

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 possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology, and careers, to the next level.

The Cortex Code team is building the future of coding agents for working with data. Your work will directly impact how developers and businesses build with data. You'll own the full AI engineering lifecycle: design, prompt/tool engineering, evals, deployment, measurement, and optimization. Build agentic workflows, coding harnesses, evaluation pipelines.
Build enterprise-grade context engineering: function calling, tool schemas, guardrails, agent teams, and verification/repair.
Partner with product and infra: translate customer problems into products and experiments. Work with an elite team of engineers towards building great products

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field. 5+ years of experience shipping AI features in production.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Typescript, Go
• Optional) Experience working with data engineering pipelines (dbt, airflow), data modeling, data analysis, retrieval systems, and semantic layers is a plus.

Deep experience with agentic coding tools (e.g. Background in data engineering (dbt, Airflow), data modeling, analytics, retrieval / RAG, or semantic layers — highly relevant for data-centric coding agents.
Have built and owned complex systems — pipelines, orchestration, or software with substantial state, branching logic, and operational requirements.
Are a power user of modern coding agents and care about turning that intuition into systematic measurement and improvement.

Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud trusted by the world's most innovative companies. We're shipping production-ready AI applications at scale and want you to join us in building the future of how businesses interact with their data through Cortex Code , Cortex agents , Cortex analyst , Cortex search .

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field. 10+ years of experience shipping AI/ML-backed software in production, including Staff-level ownership of technical direction, cross-team delivery, and mentoring.

• Strong track record building and operating eval harnesses, measurement, and/or experimentation loops for LLM/agent systems—not only one-off benchmarks.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, Go (strong in at least two).
• Exceptional communication skills: crisp write-ups, constructive debate, and ability to influence without authority across engineering and product.
• (Optional) Experience with data engineering pipelines (dbt, Airflow), data modeling, data analysis, retrieval systems, and semantic layers is a plus.

Deep experience with agentic coding tools (IDE agents, CLI agents) and intuition for model strengths, failure modes, and prompting limits.
Background in data engineering (dbt, Airflow), analytics, retrieval / RAG, or semantic layers—highly relevant for data-centric coding agents.
Prior work on LLM observability, safety/guardrails, or quality systems used as release gates in production.

Have built and owned complex quality + data pipelines —substantial state, branching logic, and operational requirements.
Take ambiguous “quality is slipping” problems to completion: you care about clear metrics, reproducibility, and sustained improvement—not one-off score bumps.
Are a power user of modern coding agents and care about turning intuition into systematic measurement and team-wide practice.

Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud trusted by the world's most innovative companies. We're shipping production-ready AI applications at scale and want you to join us in building the future of how businesses interact with their data through Cortex Code , Cortex agents , Cortex analyst , Cortex search .

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. 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.
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.