Senior Software Engineer

About the Company

Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. It ingests and stores logs, metrics, traces, and events on an open, scalable data lakehouse using open formats like Apache Iceberg to provide rapid root cause analysis and automated workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve components of the metrics pipeline, including ingestion, storage, query execution, and caching
• Contribute to the design of next-generation metrics systems
• Design and run experiments to validate architectural changes before full implementation
• Investigate and resolve customer-reported performance issues in the metrics domain
• Collaborate with the broader Metrics team on cross-cutting concerns and pipeline architecture

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience building backend distributed systems
• Hands-on experience building and optimizing data pipelines, query engines, or storage systems
• Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems architecture
• Ability to rapidly onboard to complex, unfamiliar systems
• Customer-focused mindset with strong communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with time-series databases such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, or TimescaleDB
• Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data warehouses, specifically optimizing for low latency query workloads
• Prior work on observability, monitoring, or telemetry platforms
• Familiarity with columnar storage formats, inverted indexes, or OLAP query optimization
• Advanced degree in Computer Science with a focus on databases or systems