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# Software Engineer - Observe Data Management

- **Company:** Snowflake Inc.
- **Location:** Menlo Park, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Data Infrastructure, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Memory Management, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, System Programming, Data Ingestion, Snowflake, Concurrency, Information Technology, Low Latency, Free and Open-Source Software, Data Management, Data Lakehouse, Stream Processing
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-observe-data-management-snowflake-com-8303653

## About the Role

* 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems
 * Proficiency in Go and/or C++, with an ability to write high-performance, production-grade systems code
 * Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale data ingestion or stream processing pipelines
 * A strong sense of user empathy and product intuition - you think beyond APIs and care about end-to-end data onboarding and management experience.
 * Hands-on experience building and running services across major cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure)
 * Strong fundamentals in systems programming: concurrency, memory management, networking, and I/O
 * A track record of solving hard infrastructure or platform engineering problems at scale
 * B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, * Experience with OpenTelemetry SDKs, instrumentation, or ecosystem tooling
 * Prior open-source contributions or project maintainership
 * Familiarity with Apache Iceberg or other open table formats and data lakehouse architectures
 * Background in observability, monitoring, or SRE
 * Experience with multi-cloud data infrastructure or telemetry platforms at petabyte scale

## Description

* Design, build, and scale high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines handling petabyte-scale telemetry - logs, metrics, traces, and events
 * Develop performance-critical, distributed systems components in Go and/or C++ that operate reliably across AWS and Azure
 * Contribute to OpenTelemetry and drive Observe's open-source strategy, including external community engagement and upstream contributions
 * Architect solutions that maintain enterprise-grade availability and low latency under extreme data volumes
 * Collaborate with SRE, product, and platform teams to define data reliability standards and improve detection-to-resolution times for customers
 * Debug and resolve complex distributed systems issues at the deepest layers of the stack
 * Help shape the technical roadmap for the Data Management team and mentor engineers across the organization


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