Senior Software Engineer - LLM Apps

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

Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud, trusted by a huge fraction of the world's largest and most innovative companies to store their data. The Cortex Apps team at Snowflake is dedicated to developing innovative applications that enhance data interaction and analysis. Our products - like Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst and Cortex Agents - empower users to extract meaningful insights from their data with ease.

Cortex Search enables low-latency, high-quality fuzzy search over Snowflake data, supporting applications like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and enterprise search. Cortex Analyst is a fully managed, LLM-powered feature that allows users to ask business questions in natural language and receive direct answers without writing SQL. Cortex Agents allow our customers to build AI agents in Snowflake, leveraging their data through Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst and Cortex Functions. AI SQL is a new, enhanced form of SQL that includes AI operations natively, on both structured and unstructured (multimodal data).

About the Role:

As a member of the Cortex Apps backend engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining applications that transform how users interact with their data.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design and implement scalable and secure applications that enhance data search and analysis capabilities.

• Optimize application performance to ensure low-latency and high-quality user experiences.

• Deploy and manage search infrastructure components using containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Use metrics and alerting to monitor applications and ensure reliability and uptime.

• Continuously improve functionality through experimentation, A/B testing, and performance tuning.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Java, C++ or Python.

• Experience working with distributed systems.

• Experience with AI/ML, database systems and SQL, is a plus.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as anessential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure andconfidential.

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.

How do you want to make your impact?

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $287,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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.

How do you want to make your impact?