Backend Software Engineer, AI Platform User Experiences

Position: Backend Software Engineer, AI Platform for User Experiences
Job Summary
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Snowflake is a company focused on empowering enterprises through innovation and collaboration. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to build AI-first platform services that enhance user experiences, focusing on APIs, orchestration services, and storage layers.

Responsibilities
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• Build AI-first platform services that power Snowflake’s user experiences, including APIs, orchestration services, and storage layers that are safe, scalable, and easy to extend.

• Design and implement agentic systems and tools that automate complex coding, migration, and testing workflows (e.g., SQL/ETL migration, refactoring, and validation for customers adopting Snowflake).

• Own the full backend lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of production services.

• Scale automated coding agents and backend workflows to dramatically reduce human effort.

• Define and improve evaluation loops: build golden datasets, rubrics, and metrics to measure quality of AI- and agent-driven systems, then “hillclimb” on those metrics.

• Evolve the serving & infra layer for Snowsight and related experiences (routing, configuration, permissions, performance tuning, resiliency).

• Improve platform reliability by investing in observability, alerting, SLOs, and automated remediation across our serving, storage, and AI systems.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with forward deployed engineers, product managers, designers, data scientists, and other PE and Cortex teams to turn real-world customer problems into robust, shipped product features.

• Contribute to technical vision for an AI-first user experience platform and help set best practices for backend and AI engineering within the org.

Qualifications
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Required
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• 3+ years of industry experience designing and building backend systems or large-scale web applications.

• Strong programming skills in at least one of:
Java, Go, Python

• Solid experience building and operating distributed systems and microservices: REST/gRPC APIs, service-to-service communication, configuration management, performance tuning, caching, and scalability patterns

• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases; experience with Snowflake, SQL Server, Oracle, or Teradata is a plus.

• Deep computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, and system design.

• Experience with or strong interest in: AI/ML or LLM-based applications (agents, prompt/tool engineering, evals, or productionized AI features), building evaluation frameworks, metrics, and 'golden sets' for AI or automation systems

• Familiarity with modern web application architectures, including:
Backend-for-frontend patterns, API gateways, authentication/authorization, and secure service design

• Experience building highly reliable, observable systems:
Logging, tracing, metrics, dashboards, and on-call best practices, Testing at multiple levels (unit, integration, end-to-end, load/regression)

• Passion for AI-first user experiences and for building platforms that enable many teams to move faster while keeping systems maintainable and safe.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across disciplines and drive cross-functional initiatives.

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred
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• Optional: exposure to Type Script/Node.js or React is a plus, especially when collaborating closely with frontend teams.

Company
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Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, USA, with a team of  employees. The company is currently Late Stage.