Staff Software Engineer, Frontier Security Team at Snowflake

Department: Engineering

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Type: Full-time
Level: staff+
Posted: Sep 25, 2026

Description

Snowflake is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Frontier Security AI team to lead the design and development of an Agentic Harness and agent evaluation platform. The role involves building multi-step AI workflows, tool-execution interfaces, agent quality evaluation systems, production observability, simulation and replay infrastructure, and secure multi-tenant services. The engineer will define technical direction across product, infrastructure, applied AI, security, and modeling teams, mentor engineers, and remain involved in implementation and debugging. The posting requires 9+ years of software engineering experience, production LLM or agent experience, distributed systems expertise, Python and a systems or application language, and a bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Required Skills

Python
Distributed systems
Service architecture
High-throughput APIs
Concurrency
Failure handling
Tool calling
Structured generation
Retrieval
Context engineering
Prompt management
Model APIs
Production observability

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Required Previous Experiences: 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
Experience building an agent runtime, workflow engine, developer platform, evaluation system, or similar infrastructure
Experience with production observability, including structured traces, replay, metrics, logs, and incident diagnosis
Preferred Qualifications: Building evaluation or observability infrastructure for agentic coding, data engineering, or analytics systems
Designing human-evaluation programs, scoring rubrics, annotation workflows, or grader-calibration methods
Working with multi-agent orchestration, long-running agents, asynchronous workflows, or durable execution
Developing synthetic tasks, simulations, adversarial tests, red-team exercises, or safety guardrails
Building retrieval systems that use vector search, hybrid search, semantic indexing, ranking, or caching
Operating multi-tenant systems that process sensitive enterprise data
Working with model training, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, or feedback-driven optimization
Evaluating and onboarding frontier models based on measured product outcomes
Experience with databases, SQL engines, data platforms, Kubernetes, or cloud-native infrastructure
Translation Company Name: Snowflake