Job Summary:
Snowflake is a leading data platform company seeking AI-native thinkers to redefine the future of work. In this role, you will lead the backend architecture and delivery of the Logs product area, focusing on API design, log ingestion, and building user-friendly workflows for both humans and AI agents.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the backend architecture and delivery of the Logs product area by owning the full lifecycle from API design through production reliability, with a strong sense of what makes a great end-user experience.
• Drive technical direction for log ingestion, storage, querying, and enrichment pipelines capable of handling hundreds of terabytes of telemetry daily.
• Build for both humans and AI agents — design APIs and workflows that work equally well for UI users and programmatic access by AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor.
• Partner deeply with PMs, Frontend, and Design to shape the product roadmap, translate user needs into sound technical designs, and identify backend capabilities that unlock high-value product experiences.
• Champion product thinking on the engineering team — bring clarity to trade-offs, flag gaps in requirements, and proactively surface opportunities to simplify or improve the product.
• Set the technical bar through code reviews, architecture reviews, and mentorship, establishing patterns that scale across the broader backend organization.
• Champion the use of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to maintain high code quality and accelerate delivery.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 7+ years of industry experience building and maintaining high-scale backend systems in production.
• Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or a comparable systems-oriented language; comfort working across the stack when needed.
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems — familiarity with streaming pipelines, columnar storage, or log/event processing is a strong plus.
• Demonstrated product acumen: you can read a PRD critically, push back on requirements that don't serve users, and propose simpler solutions without sacrificing outcomes.
• Track record of leading end-to-end feature delivery in close partnership with cross-functional teams (PM, Design, Frontend).
• Strong written and verbal communication — you can explain technical decisions to non-engineers and influence roadmap priorities with data and reasoning.
Preferred:
• Experience building observability or log management systems (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Loki, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience operating data lakehouses under high performance and high scale.
• Experience with query DSLs, CEL, or similar expression evaluation frameworks.
• Prior experience in a tech lead or staff engineer capacity on a product-focused team.
Company:
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.