Staff Software Engineer – Forge

Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer at Snowflake developing AI-first platforms and improving developer productivity. Collaborate across teams for UI features in a centralized user experience.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeBellevue • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $236,000 - $339,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoJavaPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and build AI-first platforms, tools, and best practices to significantly enhance the developer experience for Snowsight.
Drive strategy and initiatives to improve agentic development workflows and build infrastructure to support 10x increases in developer productivity.
Improve platform reliability by investing in observability, alerting, SLOs, and automated remediation across our systems.
Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions.
Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
7+ years industry experience developing tools for large codebases.
Passion for AI-first processes and for building platforms that enable many teams to move faster while keeping systems maintainable and safe.
Experience with or strong interest in AI or LLM-based applications (agents, prompt/tool engineering, evals, or productionized AI features).
Experience working on enterprise-grade build systems.
Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Fluency in Go, Java, or Python.
Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
Outstanding written and oral English language skills.
Ability to work on-site at our Bellevue, WA or Menlo Park, CA offices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Competitive salary and benefits package.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI ApplicationsLarge CodebasesObservabilityAlertingSLOsAutomated RemediationData StructuresAlgorithmsDistributed SystemsTooling Standards

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingTeam CollaborationMentoringInterpersonal CommunicationStrategic Mindset