Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Product (Backend-Focused)

The role

Senior and Staff Product Engineers will build, ship, and improve backend product capabilities. You will partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to turn user needs into product experiences including APIs, services, and data models.

What you will do

• Build, ship, and improve backend product capabilities.
• Partner with Product Managers, designers, and engineers to shape features.
• Build and evolve APIs, services, data models, and workflow capabilities.
• Develop products for cataloging, searching data, benchmarking agent performance, and automating workflows.
• Investigate and resolve issues across services and data flows.
• Contribute to technical and architecture decisions.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Identify opportunities to improve the product and underlying systems.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong backend or backend-oriented full-stack experience building and improving a product
• Track record of contributing to polished, intuitive products
• Experience partnering with Product Managers and cross-functional teammates
• Experience building and maintaining backend services and APIs
• Experience working with data stores and queries
• Strong engineering fundamentals
• Ability to write reliable, maintainable code
• Ability to investigate technical problems and debug effectively
• Clear communication skills
• Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with a team

Nice to have

• Experience with data-heavy products
• Experience with agent workflows, agent evaluations, benchmarking, or analyzing traces of agent activity
• Experience building workflow automation
• Familiarity with DAGs
• Experience in developer tools or other products with sophisticated user workflows
• Experience taking a product feature from an initial user problem through launch and continued improvement

About the company

Snorkel AI is a frontier AI data lab that helps teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, the company works with leading AI labs and enterprises.