Snowflake

Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Team

CH-Zurich-Observe. Posted 19 days ago

The role

You will design, build, and own core features, APIs, and business logic for a high-performance observability platform. You will take end-to-end ownership from technical scoping and architecture through deployment.

What you will do

  • Design, build, and own core features, APIs, and business logic powering a high-performance observability platform
  • Take end-to-end ownership from technical scoping and architecture through deployment
  • Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and data teams to deliver solutions
  • Partner with SREs and customer-facing teams to diagnose and resolve production issues
  • Contribute to high engineering standards through code review, mentorship, and architectural influence

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend application systems or distributed platforms
  • Demonstrated experience designing and shipping production systems at scale
  • Strong proficiency in one or more server-side languages such as Go, Java, Scala, Python, or similar
  • Ability to work independently and take ownership of complex technical problems
  • Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams
  • Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Experience with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, or distributed tracing and logging systems (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger)
  • Experience building or contributing to AI-assisted developer tools or LLM-integrated workflows
  • Background in SRE practices, incident response automation, or root-cause analysis tooling
  • Open-source contributions to observability, data infrastructure, or developer productivity projects

About the company

Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. It combines startup-style ownership and velocity with the global reach and ecosystem of Snowflake.