Staff Software Engineer - AI Products

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. ABOUT THE AI PRODUCTS TEAM The AI Products team is part of the broader Marketplace & Collaboration organization and is focused on bringing AI products on top of Snowflake’s data and application platform to help customers discover, share, monetize, and act on data assets & applications more easily. This team is building the connective tissue of the agentic enterprise: the infrastructure and product surfaces that allow Snowflake customers to seamlessly share datasets, semantic views, and applications, and make them discoverable and executable through Cortex Code, CoWork, and other agentic harnesses. Our strategy is centered on evolving Snowflake Marketplace for the AI era, including packaging data and intelligence into ready-to-use agentic experiences, and enabling governed access patterns that let AI systems safely operate on enterprise data and applications. AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER ON AI PRODUCTS, YOU WILL - Lead the design and delivery of large, complex initiatives spanning multiple teams, turning ambiguous product and platform opportunities into durable technical solutions. - Shape the architecture for how datasets, applications, semantic assets, and agentic capabilities are shared, discovered, governed, and invoked across Snowflake surfaces and third-party agentic environments. - Define and evolve the APIs, metadata models, runtime discovery systems, and sharing protocols that make enterprise assets usable by AI agents and developer workflows. - Partner closely with product managers, designers, and platform teams to deliver high-impact customer experiences that raise the bar for AI-native collaboration on Snowflake. - Act as a technical owner for critical product areas with a strong focus on service health, quality, customer impact, reliability, and long-term maintainability. - Identify systemic issues affecting customer experience or engineering velocity and drive cross-team solutions that endure beyond a single launch or component. - Use sound engineering judgment to make trade-offs across product value, technical complexity, scalability, and strategic importance, with an eye toward Snowflake’s broader company goals. - Mentor other engineers, raise the quality bar in code and design reviews, and help develop technical expertise across the team. - Contribute hands-on across the stack as needed, from backend systems and APIs to user-facing product experiences, in service of shipping meaningful customer value. OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE - 9+ years of professional software engineering experience, including ownership of large-scale production systems. - A track record of leading large projects or very complex cross-team efforts from problem definition through architecture, execution, and rollout. - Deep expertise in at least one core area such as distributed systems, data/application sharing, or AI-powered product surfaces, along with the ability to contribute outside their primary domain when the problem demands it. - Strong backend engineering skills in one or more of Java,