Staff Software Engineer, Frontier Security Team
Snowflake · US-CA-Menlo Park
Big Tech AIonsitestaff$236k–$295k
At a glance
Highlights
- Lead design of Agentic Harness executing complex multi-step AI workflows.
- Own agent quality end-to-end with eval harnesses and release gates.
- Turn ambiguous agent failures into measurable fixes from production data.
Ideal candidate
Low-ego, AI-native builder who thrives in fast-moving teams and treats evaluation as core product engineering. You take end-to-end ownership from architecture to customer impact and prefer evidence from production behavior.
Requirements
- 9+ years of software engineering experience including technical leadership of complex production systems
- Direct experience shipping and operating LLM applications, AI agents, or model-backed workflows in production
- Strong background in distributed systems, service architecture, high-throughput APIs, concurrency and failure handling
- Experience building an agent runtime, workflow engine, developer platform, evaluation system or similar infrastructure
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate nondeterministic systems without relying on a single aggregate score
- Fluency in Python and proficiency in Java, Go, Rust or TypeScript
- Hands-on knowledge of tool calling, structured generation, retrieval, context engineering, prompt management and model APIs
Lab profile
About Snowflake
Cloud data platform for storage, analytics, data sharing, and enterprise AI workloads.
What they build
- Snowflake Data Cloud
- Data warehousing and data lakes
- Snowpark developer framework
Known for
- Elastic scalable cloud architecture
- Secure governance and data sharing
- Multi-cloud analytics and AI
Key facts
- Founded in 2012
- Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana
- Public company (NYSE: SNOW)
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