Principal Software Engineer – AI

Snowflake

full-time

Posted on: 4/13/2026

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Warsaw • Poland

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About the role

Build customer facing AI Functions portfolio of products
Design and implement highly scalable distributed platforms within the global Snowflake platform.
Participate in decision-making processes on technical or business issues.
Collaborate with engineers across teams to help deliver cross-functional initiatives.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

14+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale systems in production.
Passionate about AI/ML and NLP space
Deep multi-faceted appreciation in building end-to-end customer facing products.
Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems (Fluency in Python, or Java preferred)
Knowledge of C, C++, Go is a big plus.
Experience working with cross teams and product managers.
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors.

Benefits

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
We focus on solving the hard research and engineering problems required to make high quality multi-cloud service work.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI Functionsdistributed systemsPythonJavaCC++Godata structuresalgorithmslarge-scale systems

Soft Skills

collaborationdecision-makingoperational readinesscustomer commitmentcross-functional initiativespassion for AI/MLNLP appreciation

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer Science