Senior Swe, AI Backend: Observe by Snowflake

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · CA-Menlo Park, United States · Engineering

Senior Backend Engineer for Snowflake's AI-powered observability platform, Observe. The role focuses on building backend systems for AI features like context resolution APIs and alert-to-agent pipelines, emphasizing end-to-end ownership, product intuition, and collaboration with AI/ML engineers. Experience with LLM quality measurement and backend engineering at scale is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build backend systems that power Observe's AI product layer from context resolution APIs to real-time alert-to-agent pipelines
  2. Own services end-to-end across design, implementation, and production reliability
  3. Bring strong product intuition to technical decisions; understanding how your work connects to user and agent outcomes, and contribute to shaping what gets built
  4. Collaborate closely with product managers and AI/ML engineers to ship high-quality, well-designed systems in a fast-moving environment

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • backend engineering depth across APIs, data infrastructure, and distributed systems
  • Fluency in Go
  • ability to work across TypeScript and Python
  • Familiarity with evals or LLM quality measurement
  • Strong product sense

What the JD emphasized

  • track record of shipping production systems at scale
  • Familiarity with evals or LLM quality measurement

Other signals

  • AI-powered observability platform
  • agentic enterprise
  • AI SRE
  • intelligent, automated workflows