Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise

Snowflake
Zurich-Observe, Switzerland
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in building CI/CD systems and AI agent-based workflows.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 5+ years in engineering productivity and CI/CD pipeline development
    — “5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on engineering productivity, developer tooling, agentic workflows, build systems, or release engineering”
  • Individuals who have built test execution frameworks and optimized CI performance
    — “Build and scale test infrastructure and test execution frameworks to accelerate developer feedback loops”
  • Candidates with a strong interest in developer experience and velocity metrics
    — “Deep interest in developer experience, developer velocity metrics, and building developer-facing products”

Things to consider

  • The role is likely to require hands-on work with cloud infrastructure and containerization
    — “Hands-on experience with containerization, cloud infrastructure, and release automation”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with AI agent systems and how they improved engineering velocity
    — “Design, build, and maintain internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agent based developer workflows”
  • Showcase work on scalable test infrastructure and reducing test flakiness
    — “Monitor and optimize build times, test flakiness, and CI performance across the engineering organization”
  • Emphasize contributions to open-source projects in observability or data infrastructure
    — “Open-source contributions to observability, data infrastructure, or developer productivity projects”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • building scalable developer tools
  • improving developer velocity
Typical background
5+ years of software engineering experienceexperience with CI/CD systems

Skills & requirements

Required

Software EngineeringEngineering ProductivityCi/cd PipelinesTest InfrastructureCloud Infrastructure

Preferred

Backend Application DevelopmentOpen-source Developer ToolsKubernetes

Stack & domain

Software EngineeringEngineering ProductivityDeveloper ToolingAgentic WorkflowsBuild SystemsRelease EngineeringCI/CDTest InfrastructureCloud InfrastructureRelease AutomationServer-side LanguagesContainerizationOpen-source ToolsKubernetesCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamworkCommunicationLeadershipSoftwareEngineeringCloudAI

About the role

Original posting from Snowflake via Ashby

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud and engineered for scale. We ingest and store logs, metrics, traces, and events on an open, scalable data lakehouse, using open formats like Apache Iceberg, at dramatically lower cost. A dynamic Context Graph and chat-based AI SRE provide rich context and automated workflows so teams can move from detection to root cause of production issue and resolution 10x faster.

Leading engineering teams at companies like Capital One, Topgolf, and Dialpad rely on Observe to troubleshoot hundreds of terabytes of telemetry daily while maintaining reliability at enterprise scale. As part of Snowflake, Observe combines startup-style ownership and velocity with the global reach, operational excellence, and ecosystem of one of the world’s leading data platforms.

THE TEAM:

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity for our Engineering team at Observe by Snowflake.

As part of Engineering Productivity at Observe by Snowflake, you will empower engineering teams across the organization by building scalable developer tools, robust build and test infrastructure, and automated release systems. Working at the intersection of developer experience, build systems, AI agent systems, and cloud infrastructure, you will play a critical role in driving engineering velocity and reliability at scale.

IN THIS ROLE YOUR WILL:

  • Design, build, and maintain internal tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and AI agent based developer workflows
  • Build and scale test infrastructure and test execution frameworks to accelerate developer feedback loops
  • Improve developer velocity, developer and agent environment tooling, as well as local debugging/testing workflows
  • Partner with development, infrastructure, and SRE teams to streamline release engineering, deployment reliability, and artifact management
  • Monitor and optimize build times, test flakiness, and CI performance across the engineering organization

QUALIFICATIONS:

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on engineering productivity, developer tooling, agentic workflows, build systems, or release engineering
  • Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems, build orchestration tools (e.g., Bazel, Nix, Go build tooling), and test automation infrastructure
  • Strong proficiency in server-side languages such as Go, Python, Java, or C++
  • Hands-on experience with containerization, cloud infrastructure, and release automation
  • Deep interest in developer experience, developer velocity metrics, and building developer-facing products

BONUS POINTS:

  • Experience in backend application development
  • Experience with open-source developer tools, Kubernetes, or infrastructure-as-code
  • Experience with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, or distributed tracing and logging systems (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger)
  • Open-source contributions to observability, data infrastructure, or developer productivity projects

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 http://careers.snowflake.com

Source: Snowflake careers (Ashby)

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