Staff Software Engineer, Cortex AI Search Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the modeling team to take raw LLM capabilities and turn them into hardened, multi-tenant microservices with strict guardrails and observability.
• Direct the infra strategy for model routing, prompt caching, and token optimization to ensure Snowflake’s AI features are the most efficient in the industry.

Requirements

• Familiarity with the "plumbing" of AI: vector indices, agent platforms, and building scalable data pipelines.

Preferred

• Query optimization and SQL engine internals.
• Designing multi-tenant systems that handle sensitive enterprise data at scale.
• Developing search infrastructure for large-scale applications.
• Direct experience with any of the subsystems outlined above.

Architect Agentic Runtimes

Build and scale the orchestration engines that execute complex agentic workflows, ensuring low-latency tool execution and robust state management.

Scale Context Engineering Infra

Design high-performance systems for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), including vector database integration, scalable and efficient search indexing, query processing, and result ranking, semantic caching, and automated metadata extraction.

Build the "Evals Engine"

Develop the automated infrastructure required to run massive-scale golden set simulations, error analysis pipelines, and "hillclimbing" experiments.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Experience

9 + years of experience building distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, or backend infrastructure for AI/ML products.

Technical Stack

• Deep proficiency in
• Go or

Java

(for systems) and

Python

(for AI orchestration).

Systems Thinking

Strong understanding of database internals, distributed state management, and cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, FoundationDB, etc.).

(Bonus) Experience with

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?

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