Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity

The role

You will empower engineering teams by building scalable developer tools, build and test infrastructure, and automated release systems. This role works at the intersection of developer experience, build systems, AI agent systems, and cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agent based developer workflows
• Build and scale test infrastructure and test execution frameworks to accelerate developer feedback loops
• Improve developer velocity, developer and agent environment tooling, as well as local debugging/testing workflows
• Partner with development, infrastructure, and SRE teams to streamline release engineering, deployment reliability, and artifact management
• Monitor and optimize build times, test flakiness, and CI performance across the engineering organization

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on engineering productivity, developer tooling, agentic workflows, build systems, or release engineering
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems, build orchestration tools (e.g., Bazel, Nix, Go build tooling), and test automation infrastructure
• Strong proficiency in server-side languages such as Go, Python, Java, or C++
• Hands-on experience with containerization, cloud infrastructure, and release automation
• Deep interest in developer experience, developer velocity metrics, and building developer-facing products

Nice to have

• Experience in backend application development
• Experience with open-source developer tools, Kubernetes, or infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, or distributed tracing and logging systems (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger)
• 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 operational excellence of Snowflake.