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 Apps team at Snowflake is dedicated to developing innovative applications that enhance data interaction and analysis. Our products – like Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst and Cortex Agents – empower users to extract meaningful insights from their data with ease.
Cortex Search enables low-latency, high-quality fuzzy search over Snowflake data, supporting applications like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and enterprise search. Cortex Analyst is a fully managed, LLM-powered feature that allows users to ask business questions in natural language and receive direct answers without writing SQL. Cortex Agents allow our customers to build AI agents in Snowflake, leveraging their data through Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst and Cortex Functions. AI SQL is a new, enhanced form of SQL that includes AI operations natively, on both structured and unstructured (multimodal data).
About the Role:
As a member of the Cortex Apps backend engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining applications that transform how users interact with their data.
Your responsibilities will include:
Design and implement scalable and secure applications that enhance data search and analysis capabilities.
Optimize application performance to ensure low-latency and high-quality user experiences.
Deploy and manage search infrastructure components using containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
Use metrics and alerting to monitor applications and ensure reliability and uptime.
Continuously improve functionality through experimentation, A/B testing, and performance tuning.
Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
5+ years of experience as a software engineer.
Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Java, C++ or Python.
Experience working with distributed systems.
Experience with AI/ML, database systems and SQL, is a plus.
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
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
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What We Do
Snowflake powers the end-to-end data lifecycle – from ingesting and processing data to analyzing and modeling it, to building and sharing data and AI applications – helping engineers, analysts, and leaders innovate faster and achieve more with their data.
We're on a mission to empower every enterprise to achieve its full potential through data and AI.
Why Work With Us
Snowflake is where data does more, and so do you. More innovating, more growing, and more collaborating. Here, you’ll find the sweet spot between building big and moving fast, in technology and your career.
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