Senior Software Engineer - Observe Data Management

United States Remote April 22, 2026 Phenom

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

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