Software Engineer (AI-Native), Database Engineering

About the role

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

ABOUT THE ROLE :

You will work on critical business initiatives in the core database engine, bringing an AI-first approach to software development to accelerate roadmap cycles and deliver greater customer impact.

Your work will directly impact how developers and businesses build with data. You'll own features end-to-end while applying AI-native engineering practices across design, implementation, evaluation, deployment, measurement, and optimization.

You will thrive here if you are comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with short feedback loops, ambiguity, and a high bar for execution. We value people who take problems through completion, going beyond prototypes to deliver reliable, observable solutions with measurable outcomes.

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

- Own features end-to-end for Snowflake Database Engineering products, from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production operations.

- Design and build reliable, scalable systems for complex database and data platform workloads, with a focus on performance, correctness, and operability.

- Lead the adoption of modern AI-driven development practices, using coding agents, automated verification, and continuous benchmarking to build higher-quality software at speed.

- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to translate customer and engineering problems into robust product capabilities and production-ready systems.

- Work with a highly experienced team of engineers to build and evolve core Snowflake products.

OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field. Master’s or higher degree preferred, but not required.

- 2+ years of software engineering experience building and operating complex production systems.

- Solid distributed systems fundamentals, with exposure to areas such as distributed execution, storage systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, performance optimization, or large-scale data processing.

- Strong hands-on experience with AI coding agents, including advanced use across the software development lifecycle and strong intuition for model strengths, failure modes, and limitations.