Senior Software Engineer - Cortex AI

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud, trusted by a huge fraction of the world’s largest and most innovative companies to store their data. The Cortex AI team at Snowflake is dedicated to developing innovative applications that enhance data interaction and analysis. Our products – like Cortex LLM, Cortex Analyst , Cortex Agents and Cortex Search – empower users to extract meaningful insights from their data with ease. 

About the Role:

As a member of the Cortex AI engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining the core database abstractions and capabilities that transform how users process unstructured data today.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Navigating ambiguous product and problem spaces.

• Working cross functionally with PM, EM and other teams and understand broader business goals to align technical priorities.

• Implementing scalable and secure features that enhance data retrieval and analysis capabilities.

• Optimizing performance to ensure low-latency, high throughput and low error rates.

• Deploying and managing infrastructure components using containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Using metrics and alerting to monitor applications and ensure reliability and uptime.

• Continuously improving functionality through experimentation, performance tuning, and customer feedback.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems.

• Ability to move and iterate quickly in a highly ambiguous environment. Bias towards action and ability to take a step back and build alignment.

• Excellent problem solving skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as C++, Java, Go and Python, with an emphasis on performance and scalability.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

• Expertise with database systems, query optimization, or building and optimizing LLM inference systems for batch workloads is a plus.

Why Join the Cortex AI Engineering Team at Snowflake?

• Be part of a pioneering effort to build the next generation of database systems leveraging AI.

• Work on a high-impact project that solves real-world data challenges for enterprise customers.

• Collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the data ecosystem, including researchers from top universities.

• Have the opportunity to innovate in one of the fastest-growing and evolving areas in data infrastructure, where you can make a direct impact on Snowflake’s growth and the broader open-source community.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com