Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow. 

We’re searching for a talented Principal Software Engineer to join us for our efforts building out the Snowflake platform with cognitive capabilities. Our team at Snowflake has responsibility for moving boundaries of NLP space to SOTA levels and coming up with new solutions in cognitive space. As our team is growing rapidly to keep up with this key responsibility alongside Snowflake’s immense growth, we need additional talent to help lead the change.

You will get to be a technology thought leader, evangelize new, cutting edge technologies and solve complex problems.

AS PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN AI & ML YOU WILL:

Build customer facing AI based services like intelligent document processing. 

Design and implement highly scalable distributed platforms within the global Snowflake platform.

Participate in decision-making processes on technical or business issues.

Collaborate with engineers across teams to help deliver cross-functional initiatives.

Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding reliability, availability and performance.

IDEAL PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

14+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale systems in production.

Passionate about AI/ML and NLP space

Deep multi-faceted appreciation in building end-to-end customer facing products.

Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems (Fluency in Python, or Java preferred)

Knowledge of C, C++, Go is a big plus.

Experience working with cross teams and product managers.

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors.

Snowflake is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  

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.

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