snowflake
Staff Software Engineer - Forge
At a Glance
- Location
- US-WA-Bellevue, United States
- Employment
- FULL_TIME
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Compensation
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- Department
- Snowflake
- Posted
- 2026-03-17
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Certifications
- SAFe
Domain Knowledge
- Engineering
Requirements
Our ideal Staff Software Engineer will have:
Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
7+ years industry experience developing tools for large codebases.
Passion for AI-first processes and for building platforms that enable many teams to move faster while keeping systems maintainable and safe.
Experience with or strong interest in AI or LLM-based applications (agents, prompt/tool engineering, evals, or productionized AI features)
Experience working on enterprise-grade build systems.
Responsibilities
As a software engineer on the team, you will play a central role in delivering the next generation of tools and evolve our developer infrastructure and tooling to be scalable, highly performant, and AI-first.
Design and build AI-first platforms, tools, and best practices to significantly enhance the developer experience for Snowsight
Drive strategy and initiatives to improve agentic development workflows and build infrastructure to support 10x increases in developer productivity
Improve platform reliability by investing in observability, alerting, SLOs, and automated remediation across our systems.
Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions.
Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards.
Team
The Apps & Experiences (AppEx) organization powers the unified user experience (Snowsight) for Snowflake. Every major Snowflake customer interacts with our platform through these surfaces, making AppEx central to both customer satisfaction and revenue growth.
Within Appex, our team sits at the intersection of AI, platform, and user experience. We are on a mission to create an AI‑first, scalable, maintainable, and extensible platform to build all Snowflake user experience features. The team owns:
The serving layer that powers Snowsight, Snowflake Intelligence, and UX features
Developer tooling that enable our engineers to move fast and deliver
Frontend infrastructure and shared services for product teams
CI pipelines that ensure fast and reliable builds