# Principal Software Engineer - Agentic Pipelines at Snowflake

- Company: Snowflake
- What the company does: Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.snowflake.net/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: US-WA-Bellevue
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $264K to $380K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/dd0b29a3-6bc8-4d6c-8fa6-79da445c70bd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/snowflake-principal-software-engineer-agentic-pipelines/

## About the role

Define and drive the technical direction for Snowflake's core data engineering and streaming transformation primitives, spanning Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, and adjacent pipeline constructs. Identify and lead multi-quarter technical investments — performance, scalability, correctness, and reliability — translating ambiguous problem spaces into concrete engineering plans with measurable outcomes.

## What they're looking for

- 15+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed data systems
- Deep expertise in at least one core area: stream processing, declarative query execution, pipeline orchestration, or data transformation at scale
- Strong computer science fundamentals — distributed systems, algorithms, fault tolerance, and consistency models
- Proficiency in C++ or Java, comfort with systems-level reasoning (latency, throughput, resource efficiency at cloud scale)
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-team technical initiatives from blank-page architecture through production at petabyte scale across thousands of concurrent workloads
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to represent complex technical trade-offs clearly to engineering, product, and leadership audiences

Tags: Engineering