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Software Engineer (AI-Native), Database Engineering

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-CA-Menlo Park$160k - $230kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer role focused on AI-native engineering within Snowflake's core database engine, delivering end-to-end features, adopting AI-driven development practices, and collaborating across product and infrastructure to accelerate roadmap cycles and customer impact.

Responsibilities

  • Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Database Engineering products, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production operations.
  • Design and build reliable, scalable systems for complex database and data platform workloads, with a focus on performance, correctness, and operability.
  • Lead the adoption of modern AI-driven development practices, using coding agents, automated verification, and continuous benchmarking to build higher-quality software at speed.
  • Partner with product and infrastructure teams to translate customer and engineering problems into robust product capabilities and production-ready systems.
  • Work with a highly experienced team of engineers to build and evolve core Snowflake products.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field. Master’s or higher degree preferred, but not required.
  • 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating complex production systems.
  • Solid distributed systems fundamentals, with exposure to distributed execution, storage systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, performance optimization, or large-scale data processing.
  • Strong hands-on experience with AI coding agents, including advanced use across the software development lifecycle and strong intuition for model strengths, failure modes, and limitations.
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C++, Java, Go, Rust or Python.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and product teams.

Skills

Required:AI coding agentsDistributed systemsProgramming Languages (C++, Java, Go, Rust, Python)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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