Software Engineer (AI-Native), Database Engineering

Job summary

Responsibilities

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.

• 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.

What they're looking for

• Power user of modern coding agents who goes beyond adoption by systematically measuring their effectiveness, identifying failure modes, and improving their use in engineering…
• Familiarity with database internals, including query languages, compilation, query optimization or execution, semantic layers, or large-scale storage and retrieval systems.

Tech stack

• Snowflake
• C++
• Java
• Go
• Rust
• Python