# Principal Software Engineer - Observability

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 collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset - who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Build the foundation for faster, safer innovation. Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud supports critical enterprise workloads across multiple clouds and regions. As AI accelerates software development, the volume and pace of change are outgrowing what engineers can manually review, coordinate, and monitor. Moving faster requires systems that make understanding, diagnosing, and resolving issues an integral part of how customers and engineers work. The Observability team builds the telemetry, analytic

- **Id**: 3857874
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/snowflake-principal-software-engineer-observability>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Menlo Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T06:06:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T13:36:08Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5976
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Warehouses & Lakehouses, Databases & DBMS, Data Marketplaces, Sharing & Clean Rooms

## Company

- **Id**: 96
- **Name**: Snowflake
- **Domain**: snowflake.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/snowflake>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 86
- **Open postings**: 56
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.554
- **Repost share**: 0.036
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 55
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 264000
- **Max**: 379500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 379500

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AIOps** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T07:21:16Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 529 · green card filings: 106; Filings 12m: 529

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 55
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 379500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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