Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Company

Snowflake develops Observe, an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud for enterprise-scale telemetry analysis.

What you will do

• Design, build, and own core features, APIs, and business logic for a high-performance observability platform serving enterprise customers.
• Lead work from technical scoping and architecture through deployment, meeting enterprise reliability and performance standards.
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and data teams to deliver actionable insights for engineering teams.
• Partner with SREs and customer-facing teams to diagnose and resolve production issues using AI-assisted workflows.
• Contribute through code reviews, mentorship, and architectural influence.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, focused on backend application systems or distributed platforms.
• Experience designing and shipping production systems at scale with high throughput, low latency, and enterprise reliability requirements.
• Strong proficiency in one or more server-side languages such as Go, Java, Scala, Python, or similar.
• Ability to work independently and own complex technical problems from scoping through delivery.
• Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment.
• Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills, with a record of shipping impactful, customer-facing work.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, distributed tracing, or logging systems such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Jaeger.
• Experience building or contributing to AI-assisted developer tools or LLM-integrated workflows.
• Background in SRE practices, incident response automation, or root-cause analysis tooling.
• Open-source contributions to observability, data infrastructure, or developer productivity projects.

Culture & Benefits

• AI-native, experimental approach to solving problems and improving how work gets done.
• Low-ego environment focused on ownership, innovation, and challenging ordinary thinking.
• Startup-style ownership and velocity combined with the operational scale and ecosystem of Snowflake.