Principal Software Engineer

Our ideal Principal Software Engineer will have:

• Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
• 12+ 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. If you’re excited about building the platform and AI systems that power how the world’s largest companies experience Snowflake, we’d love to hear from you. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com