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.