Senior Software Engineer - Observe Data Management

Snowflake
Menlo Park
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 200,000 - 287,500 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Go","C++","OpenTelemetry","AWS","Azure","Distributed systems","Data ingestion","Stream processing"]

Senior Software Engineer for the Observe Data Management team at Snowflake responsible for designing, building, and scaling high-throughput, petabyte-scale telemetry pipelines. You'll deliver distributed systems in Go and/or C++, contribute to OpenTelemetry, and collaborate with SRE and platform teams to ensure enterprise-grade availability and low latency across AWS/Azure, shaping the data management roadmap.

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3 months ago

Senior Software Engineer - Observe Data Management

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Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer for the Observe Data Management team at Snowflake responsible for designing, building, and scaling high-throughput, petabyte-scale telemetry pipelines. You'll deliver distributed systems in Go and/or C++, contribute to OpenTelemetry, and collaborate with SRE and platform teams to ensure enterprise-grade availability and low latency across AWS/Azure, shaping the data management roadmap.
Location: Menlo Park
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and scale high-throughput data ingestion and processing pipelines handling petabyte-scale telemetry — logs, metrics, traces, and events.
  • •Develop performance-critical, distributed systems components in Go and/or C++ that operate reliably across AWS and Azure.
  • •Contribute to OpenTelemetry and drive Observe's open-source strategy, including external community engagement and upstream contributions.
  • •Architect solutions that maintain enterprise-grade availability and low latency under extreme data volumes.
  • •Collaborate with SRE, product, and platform teams to define data reliability standards and improve detection-to-resolution times for customers.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 200,000 - 287,500 annually

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in distributed systems.
  • •Proficiency in Go and/or C++, with the ability to write high-performance, production-grade systems code.
  • •Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale data ingestion or stream processing pipelines.
  • •Hands-on experience building and running services across major cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure).
  • •Strong fundamentals in systems programming: concurrency, memory management, networking, and I/O.
Experience:5+ yearsTelemetryObservabilityCloudData platform
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:GoC++OpenTelemetryAWSAzureDistributed systemsData ingestionStream processing
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoC++OpenTelemetryAWSAzureIceberg

Company Brief

Snowflake
Provides a cloud-native data platform for data warehousing, data engineering, data science, and analytics, enabling organizations to store, process, and share large-scale data across multiple cloud providers with elastic scalability and performance.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Bozeman, United States
Founded: 2012
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