Senior Software Engineer - Cortex AI - FDE

What this role involves

This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Cortex Apps team at Snowflake, focusing on backend infrastructure for AI products like Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Agents. Responsibilities include architecting agentic runtimes, scaling context engineering infrastructure, building an evals engine, and productionizing AI workflows. The role requires 7+ years of experience in distributed systems, proficiency in Go/Java and Python, and familiarity with AI plumbing such as vector indices and agent platforms.

Skills this posting asks for

• go
• java
• python
• kubernetes
• foundationdb
• rag
• vector databases
• search indexing
• query processing
• result ranking
• semantic caching
• metadata extraction
• evals frameworks
• llm
• agent systems
• distributed systems
• high-throughput apis
• backend infrastructure
• ai/ml
• sql
• query optimization
• multi-tenant systems
• search infrastructure

Requirements

• 7 years of experience
• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

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 collabor…