Senior Software Engineer (Observe by Snowflake, Workflow)

• We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Workflow team within Observe by Snowflake

• This team owns the core user experience layer—dashboards, worksheets, and the surface-level interfaces through which customers explore, query, and act on their observability data

• You’ll build the systems that make complex data feel intuitive and reliable at scale

• Design and build scalable, high-quality backend features that power the dashboards and data visualization tools our customers depend on every day

• Analyze, improve, and maintain the performance, scalability, and availability of large-scale distributed systems and query processing engines

• Lead technical scoping and design reviews; proactively identify architectural bottlenecks in workflow systems and drive solutions that scale

• Partner closely with Frontend, Logs, and APM engineering teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end platform experiences

• Collaborate with Product Managers to translate customer needs into well-defined roadmap items and executable engineering plans

• Own the full delivery lifecycle—from requirements and design through coding, testing, and production observability

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans

• Health savings accounts

• Robust retirement plans

• Life and disability insurance

• Weekly online lunch and learns

• Virtual workout classes

• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment

• On-demand mental health and wellness programs

• Fertility benefits and family planning resources

• Generous time-off and various leave plans

• Onsite and Remote Work

• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections

• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Quarterly bonus or commission program- The ability to take complex, ambiguous customer requirements and translate them into reliable, maintainable software

• A Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline—or equivalent professional experience

• Proficiency in Go, or demonstrated expertise in another high-performance systems programming language

• Proven experience designing and building user-facing features for distributed, production-scale architectures

• Strong foundations in computer science: data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems principles

• Comfort working across the backend/frontend boundary—collaborating with and sometimes influencing frontend engineering decisions

• Experience building backend APIs and services for dashboarding, reporting, or data visualization platforms

• Familiarity with query languages, data processing systems, or large-scale observability platforms

• Experience leading medium-to-large technical projects and mentoring earlier-career engineers while staying hands-on