Snowflake
Staff Software Engineer, Frontier Security Team
$236K–$295K
US-CA-Menlo Park · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex production systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the design and development of an agent execution harness and evaluation platform, taking AI capabilities from prototype to reliable customer-facing services.
What you'll do
- Architect and build infrastructure for multi-step agent workflows, including tool execution, state, memory, permissions, and recovery.
- Own agent quality through evaluation systems, datasets, graders, experiments, production analysis, and regression prevention.
- Set technical direction across teams, lead broad-scope projects, and mentor engineers while contributing to implementation and debugging.
What they ask for
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex production systems.
- Direct experience shipping and operating LLM applications, AI agents, or model-backed workflows in production.
- Strong background in distributed systems and experience building agent, workflow, developer-platform, or evaluation infrastructure.
- Fluency in Python and proficiency in at least one of Java, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
Nice to have
- Evaluation or observability infrastructure for agentic coding, data engineering, or analytics systems.
- Experience with human evaluation, multi-agent orchestration, simulations, retrieval systems, or sensitive enterprise data.
Pay
$236K – $295K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Python, Java, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Kubernetes, SQL
AI focus
Builds production-grade LLM applications, intelligent agents, agent infrastructure, and evaluation systems; improves agent quality, safety, efficiency, and reliability.
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