Senior Software Engineer – Core Services

Snorkel AI

Senior Software Engineer designing data access libraries and event-driven data flows for Snorkel AI. Focusing on platform infrastructure and modernizing development workflows to enhance developer velocity.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeRedwood City • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $172,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSKubernetesPostgresPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build and maintain the shared data access library and SDKs that Platform, Packaging, and Dataset API teams use to read from and write to multiple data sources
Design and implement event-driven data flows using event brokers, CDC connectors, schema registry, event routing, dead letter queues
Build the systems that track how data moves through the platform (lineage), enforce who can access what (governance and RBAC), and log what happened (auditing)
Instrument the data platform with OpenTelemetry, define and monitor SLOs for query latency and pipeline success rates
Contribute to infrastructure cost visibility and optimization

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years building platform infrastructure, data infrastructure, data platforms, or backend systems with significant data components
Strong proficiency in Python
Hands-on experience with SQL and at least two of: Snowflake, Redshift, Postgres
Experience with AWS — S3, RDS, EKS, EventBridge, IAM
Experience with Kubernetes
Familiarity with data orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster) and transformation frameworks (dbt)
Understanding of data governance concepts — RBAC, PII handling, audit logging, data lineage
Fluency with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLSnowflakeRedshiftPostgresAWSKubernetesdata orchestration toolsdbtOpenTelemetry