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Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Product (Backend-Focused)

Snorkel AI · San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · Hybrid

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About Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI builds specialized training data, benchmarks, and evaluation environments that help frontier models and agents perform in high-stakes domains. Backed by Greylock, Lightspeed and GV.

About the role

We’re looking for Senior and Staff Product Engineers with strong backend engineering experience and a passion for building excellent products. You’ll help shape and deliver product capabilities that make complex workflows easier for users, from data cataloging and agent benchmarking to workflow automation. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Strong backend or backend-oriented full-stack experience building and improving a product
  • A track record of contributing to polished, intuitive products that make complex tasks easier for users
  • Experience partnering with Product Managers and other cross-functional teammates to understand user needs and shape product features
  • Experience building and maintaining backend services and APIs, and working with data stores and queries
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to write reliable, maintainable code
  • The ability to investigate technical problems, debug effectively, and make sound decisions within your area of ownership
More about this role

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes.

Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!

We’re looking for Senior and Staff Product Engineers with strong backend engineering experience and a passion for building excellent products. You’ll help shape and deliver product capabilities that make complex workflows easier for users, from data cataloging and agent benchmarking to workflow automation.

Working closely with Product, Design, and Engineering, you’ll bring user problems into technical discussions and own backend features from concept through production. We value engineers who pair sound technical judgment with care for the quality, usability, and impact of the products they build.

  • Build, ship, and improve backend product capabilities, owning work from understanding the...

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