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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - AI Products - **Company:** Snowflake Inc. - **Location:** Menlo Park, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Computing Platforms, Data Sharing, Software Design Documents, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Search Technologies, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Software Technical Review, Large Language Models, Snowflake, Backend, Information Technology, Front End Software Development, Marketplace, Golang - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-ai-products-snowflake-com-8634961 ## About the Role * 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of large-scale production systems. * A track record of leading large projects or very complex cross-team efforts from problem definition through architecture, execution, and rollout. * Deep expertise in at least one core area such as distributed systems, data/application sharing, or AI-powered product surfaces, along with the ability to contribute outside their primary domain when the problem demands it. * Strong backend engineering skills in one or more of Java, Go, Python, or similar languages, plus enough product or frontend fluency to help shape end-to-end user experiences. * Experience designing APIs, service architectures, and platform abstractions that scale reliably and are easy for other teams to build on. * Demonstrated ability to work effectively in ambiguity, use data and analysis to drive decisions, and build alignment across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders. * Strong product and customer instincts, including the ability to anticipate future needs and translate them into technical plans. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience authoring technical roadmaps, design docs and driving technical discussions across teams. * BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience., * Experience with agentic workflows, MCP servers, LLM integrations, semantic search, or AI-assisted product experiences. * Familiarity with marketplace, data-sharing, application platform, or ecosystem-style products. * Experience building governance, metadata, discovery, or catalog systems for enterprise platforms. ## Description 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 collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset - who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done., * Lead the design and delivery of large, complex initiatives spanning multiple teams, turning ambiguous product and platform opportunities into durable technical solutions. * Shape the architecture for how datasets, applications, semantic assets, and agentic capabilities are shared, discovered, governed, and invoked across Snowflake surfaces and third-party agentic environments. * Define and evolve the APIs, metadata models, runtime discovery systems, and sharing protocols that make enterprise assets usable by AI agents and developer workflows. * Partner closely with product managers, designers, and platform teams to deliver high-impact customer experiences that raise the bar for AI-native collaboration on Snowflake. * Act as a technical owner for critical product areas with a strong focus on service health, quality, customer impact, reliability, and long-term maintainability. * Identify systemic issues affecting customer experience or engineering velocity and drive cross-team solutions that endure beyond a single launch or component. * Use sound engineering judgment to make trade-offs across product value, technical complexity, scalability, and strategic importance, with an eye toward Snowflake's broader company goals. * Mentor other engineers, raise the quality bar in code and design reviews, and help develop technical expertise across the team. * Contribute hands-on across the stack as needed, from backend systems and APIs to user-facing product experiences, in service of shipping meaningful customer value. ## Related Videos - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [A Data Mesh needs Open Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/505-a-data-mesh-needs-open-metadata) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [How building an industry DBMS differs from building a research one](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/768-how-building-an-industry-dbms-differs-from-building-a-research-one) - [Scoring 2000 Products per Request: Performance Pitfalls in Golang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2073-scoring-2000-products-per-request-performance-pitfalls-in-golang) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Making Data Warehouses Fast: A Developer’s Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/107-making-data-warehouses-fast-a-developer-s-story) - [Are Software Engineer Wages Being Pushed Down? 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