Snowflake

Principal Software Engineer - Observability

United States

Principal

HYBRID

Snowflake is hiring a Principal Software Engineer for its Observability team, which builds the telemetry, analytics, and diagnostic platform that helps customers and engineers understand workload health, detect problems early, and resolve them quickly. In this role you will architect high-volume distributed pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and events; ship customer-facing observability products such as alerting and dashboards; and develop AI-driven agentic workflows for anomaly detection and root-cause diagnosis. The position requires 12+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering e...

Distributed systems design

Java

C++

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Telemetry pipeline engineering

Observability platforms (logs, metrics, traces)

AI-first engineering practices

Agentic workflow development

API and SDK design

Technical leadership

Production operations and incident diagnosis

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