Senior Software Engineer - Observe Data Management

At Snowflake, we are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Observe Data Management team. This team owns the core pipelines that ingest and process over 1 petabyte of telemetry data per day. You'll work at the intersection of massive scale, open-source innovation, and real-world reliability challenges for enterprise customers around the globe.

Requirements

• Design, build, and scale high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines handling petabyte-scale telemetry — logs, metrics, traces, and events
• Develop performance-critical, distributed systems components in Go and/or C++ that operate reliably across AWS and Azure
• Contribute to OpenTelemetry and drive Observe's open-source strategy, including external community engagement and upstream contributions
• Architect solutions that maintain enterprise-grade availability and low latency under extreme data volumes
• Collaborate with SRE, product, and platform teams to define data reliability standards and improve detection-to-resolution times for customers
• Debug and resolve complex distributed systems issues at the deepest layers of the stack
• Help shape the technical roadmap for the Data Management team and mentor engineers across the organization

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits information available at careers.snowflake.com