Software Engineer (AI-Native), Database Engineering
Snowflake
- Pay
- $160k–$230k
- Workplace
- On-site
- Location
- US-CA-Menlo Park · Menlo Park · California · United States
- First seen
- 6 days ago
- Last seen
- 4 hours ago
- Board
- Ashby
Summary
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
Posting
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. ABOUT THE ROLE : You will work on critical business initiatives in the core database engine, bringing an AI-first approach to software development to accelerate roadmap cycles and deliver greater customer impact. Your work will directly impact how developers and businesses build with data. You'll own features end-to-end while applying AI-native engineering practices across design, implementation, evaluation, deployment, measurement, and optimization. You will thrive here if you are comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with short feedback loops, ambiguity, and a high bar for execution. We value people who take problems through completion, going beyond prototypes to deliver reliable, observable solutions with measurable outcomes. AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Database Engineering products, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production operations. - Design and build reliable, scalable systems for complex database and data platform workloads, with a focus on performance, correctness, and operability. - Lead the adoption of modern AI-driven development practices, using coding agents, automated verification, and continuous benchmarking to build higher-quality software at speed. - Partner with product and infrastructure teams to translate customer and engineering problems into robust product capabilities and production-ready systems. - Work with a highly experienced team of engineers to build and evolve core Snowflake products. OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field. Master’s or higher degree preferred, but not required. - 2+ years of software engineering experienc