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. Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake Data Cloud and engineered for scale. We ingest and store logs, metrics, traces, and events on an open, scalable data lake using open formats like Apache Iceberg, delivering deep correlation and long-term analytics at dramatically lower cost. A dynamic Knowledge Graph and chat-based AI SRE provide rich context and guided workflows so teams can move from detection to root cause and resolution significantly faster. The Infrastructure team at Observe by Snowflake is responsible for building, scaling, and operating the development and production environments that power our observability platform. We are a small, highly collaborative team with a broad scope, focused on delivering reliable infrastructure while continuously improving the systems that support our engineers and customers. We’re looking for dedicated students who share our passion for ground-breaking technology and want to create a lasting future for you and Snowflake. WHAT WE OFFER : Paid, full-time internships in the heart of the software industry Post-internship career opportunities (full-time and/or additional internships) Exposure to a fast-paced, yet fun, startup culture A chance to work with world-class experts on challenging pr
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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. Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud and engineered for scale. We ingest and store logs, metrics, traces, and events on an open, scal
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2 - 5 years of professional software engineering experience with a focus on backend application systems or distributed platforms Demonstrated experience designing and shipping production systems at scale, handling high throughput, low latency, and enterprise reliability requirements Strong proficiency in one or more server-side languages such as Go, Java, Scala, Python, or similar Ability to work independently and take ownership of complex technical problems from scoping through delivery, without waiting to be directed Experience collaborating across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills with a track record of shipping impactful, customer-facing work A BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience Bonus Points: Experience with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, or distributed tracing and logging systems (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger) Experience building or contributing to AI-assisted developer tools or LLM-integrated workflows Background in SRE practices, incident response automation, or root-cause analysis tooling Open-sour
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Snowflake enables organizations to collaborate, build AI-powered data apps, and unlock data insights—all within a secure and scalable AI Data Cloud.
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