Join Snowflake as a Senior Software Engineer, where you will lead the backend architecture and delivery of the Logs product area. You will drive technical direction for log ingestion, storage, querying, and enrichment pipelines, and partner with PMs, Frontend, and Design to shape the product roadmap. You will also champion product thinking on the engineering team and set the technical bar through code reviews, architecture reviews, and mentorship.
About the role
- Prior experience in a tech lead or staff engineer capacity on a product-focused team - Experience building observability or log management systems (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, Loki, OpenTelemetry) - Track record of leading end-to-end feature delivery in close partnership with cross-functional teams (PM, Design, Frontend) - Bonus Points: - Strong written and verbal communication — you can explain technical decisions to non-engineers and influence roadmap priorities with data and reasoning - Experience with query DSLs, CEL, or similar expression evaluation frameworks - 7+ years of industry experience building and maintaining high-scale backend systems in production - Strong proficiency in Go, Java, or a comparable systems-oriented language; comfort working across the stack when needed - Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems — familiarity with streaming pipelines, columnar storage, or log/event processing is a strong plus - Demonstrated product acumen: you can read a PRD critically, push back on requirements that don't serve users, and propose simpler solutions without sacrificing outcomes - Experience operating data lakehouses under high performance and high scaleKey missions
- Lead the backend architecture and delivery of the Logs product area, owning the full lifecycle from API design through production reliability.
- Drive technical direction for log ingestion, storage, querying, and enrichment pipelines capable of handling hundreds of terabytes of telemetry daily.
- Partner deeply with PMs, Frontend, and Design to shape the product roadmap, translate user needs into sound technical designs, and identify backend capabilities that unlock high-value product experiences.