Snowflake

Staff Frontend Software Engineer, AI Product: Observe by Snowflake

US-CA-Menlo Park. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will set technical direction for the AI Products frontend architecture and build agentic AI interfaces. You will work on the AI SRE product, Slack integrations, and CLI tooling to change how engineers operate production systems.

What you will do

  • Set technical direction for the AI Products frontend architecture
  • Drive frontend architecture for the AI SRE product from concept through production
  • Design and build agentic AI interfaces for multi-step reasoning and real-time streaming
  • Contribute to the design and development of the Observe Slack integration
  • Own the technical strategy for future platform integrations
  • Contribute to CLI tooling and evaluation pipelines
  • Expand Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations and extension architecture
  • Mentor and elevate engineers through code review, architecture guidance, and pair programming
  • Collaborate with product and design to shape the product roadmap

Required qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • At least 6 years focused on frontend engineering shipping production products at scale
  • Expert-level TypeScript proficiency
  • Deep experience building complex, interactive web applications
  • Production experience with agentic AI systems and tool-use patterns
  • Strong server-side Node.js experience
  • Experience implementing or consuming MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers
  • Demonstrated technical leadership
  • Product-obsessed mindset
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience building evaluation (evals) pipelines for LLM-powered features in production
  • Experience with Bun as a runtime for CLI tooling or server applications
  • Prior work building developer platforms, internal tools, or productivity infrastructure
  • Open-source contributions to AI tooling, observability projects, or developer experience tools
  • Familiarity with the observability ecosystem (OpenTelemetry, logs/metrics/traces, APM) or direct experience with Observe's platform

About the company

Snowflake is a leading data platform. Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.