Software Engineer (AI-Native), Database Engineering

The role

You will work on critical business initiatives in the core database engine using an AI-first approach. You will own features end-to-end from design to production operations.

What you will do

• Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Database Engineering products.
• Design and build reliable, scalable systems for complex database and data platform workloads.
• Lead the adoption of modern AI-driven development practices.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to translate problems into product capabilities.
• Work with a highly experienced team of engineers to build and evolve core Snowflake products.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating complex production systems.
• Solid distributed systems fundamentals, with exposure to areas such as 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.

Nice to have

• Master’s or higher degree
• Power user of modern coding agents who goes beyond adoption by systematically measuring their effectiveness, identifying failure modes, and improving their use in engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with database internals, including query languages, compilation, query optimization or execution, semantic layers, or large-scale storage and retrieval systems.

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.