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. We are hiring a Director of Engineering for the Application, Cloud and Offensive security teams in the Security Engineering organization. Snowflake is the AI Data Cloud powering enterprises worldwide to store, process, and build intelligent applications on their most sensitive data. As AI has become more deeply embedded in what Snowflake and its customers do, the threat landscape has evolved at the same pace. This Director role was created directly in response to that convergence: a wide mandate with real influence across three security pillars and the visibility to shape how one of the most consequential technology platforms in the world stays ahead of emerging threats. AS A DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Define and execute the security strategy across three core pillars: application security, cloud security assurance, and offensive security (including the red team program), setting direction and driving measurable outcomes across all three pillars. Build and develop a high-performing security engineering organization, hiring top talent and creating a culture of rigor, ownership, and continuous improvement Drive the offensive security program including red team operations, adversarial simulations, and proactive threat modeling to stay ahead of emerging att
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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. Snowflake is building the data and AI platform for the agentic enterprise. Enterprise Apps & Agentic Systems is applying that same standard internally by redesigning business domains from first principles and turning high-value workflows into software-defined, AI-native products. We are hiring a Sr. Director to make Finance, OTC, Revenue, People, and Legal domains more agentic. This leader will own the product and engineering strategy across the portfolio, moving beyond application management to deliver intelligent products that understand context, act across systems, operate within guardrails, and involve people when judgment is required. This leader will work directly with business executives to identify the work that should be eliminated, redesigned, or delegated to software. They will build the teams, product model, technical foundations, and operating mechanisms needed to move quickly from opportunity to production and deliver measurable business impact CORE MISSION: Transform enterprise operations across Finance, People, and Legal by redesigning end-to-end workflows into AI-native products rather than adding incremental features to legacy apps. Combine domain expertise, enterprise data, workflow automation, autonomous agents, and controls into a coherent operating
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. The Grid Service and Platform Engineering team is looking for a highly motivated and collaborative Software Engineering Manager. This role involves leading the engineering of mission-critical, tier 0 service infrastructure, the foundational data platform that powers Smartsheet at scale. You will oversee services that handle millions requests per day, operate at 99.999% availability, and deliver low-latency, high-throughput performance for millions of customers worldwide. We are an agile team that operates iteratively, focused on building high-quality software and adhering to rigorous operational best practices across complex, cross-functional distributed systems. This full-time position reports to the Director, Engineering and can be located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer. You Will: Manage one or more related teams of 6–10+ software engineers, driving development of tier 0 grid services and platform infrastructure that millions of customers depend on daily. Own and uphold 99.999% service availability targets across critical platform services, embedding reliability engineering, incident management, and on-call rigor into team culture. Help architect and guide technical vision to evolve low-latency, high-throughput service platforms capable of sustaining millions requests per day with predictable, consistent performance under load. Guide and mentor engineers on distributed systems architecture, scalability patterns, and platform best pr
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. Snowflake's Frontier Engineering (FE) Operations organization is seeking a Director, Execution Operations to run delivery at scale. Rather than operating in team-aligned silos, this function aligns to the entire business, specializing in a unique swimlane with a deep cross-functional mindset and flow. In short: this team runs delivery — think execution at scale. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Services Global Operations, you will own the end-to-end delivery operations engine — from resourcing and onboarding through ongoing capacity management — as well as the Execution mechanics that keep delivery healthy, including pricing execution, bookings support, and deal support. You will lead a team responsible for making the delivery business run with precision, predictability, and margin discipline. In This Role, You Will: Own Resource Management & Staffing: Lead resource management and staffing across the FE delivery business, ensuring the right people are matched to the right engagements at the right time. Drive Delivery Process Optimization: Continuously optimize delivery processes, removing friction and standardizing workflows so teams can execute consistently at scale. Lead Project Kickoff & Onboarding: Own project kickoff and onboarding — the backend project initiatio
For over 20 years, Smartsheet has empowered teams to manage work seamlessly and scale solutions smarter. Now, in our most ambitious chapter yet, we are uniting human teams with AI agents. By orchestrating the work agents do best, automating manual tasks and uncovering insights at scale, we create the space for people to focus on what truly matters: judgment, creativity, and big thinking. That is magic at work, and it’s what we show up for every day. Corporate Systems Engineering builds and operates the software platforms, integrations, and automations that power Smartsheet’s core business functions across Finance, Sales/GTM, and People & Culture. Our team owns mission-critical systems and workflows that enable how the company hires, sells, bills, pays, reports, and scales. We operate at the intersection of software engineering, enterprise platforms, and business-critical data, treating internal systems with the same rigor, reliability, and product mindset as customer-facing software. The Automation team builds human-to-system and system-to-system automations that reduce manual effort and friction across the business. We combine cloud-native services, agentic AI, and workflow orchestration to enable employees to interact with enterprise systems through intelligent, secure, and auditable automation. As a Senior Software Engineer I (Automation), you will lead the design, build, and operation of systems and workflows that directly support business execution at scale. You will own complex technical initiatives, partner with Product Managers and stakeholders on technical roadmaps, and mentor junior engineers. This full-time position reports to the Sr. Director, Development and can be located in our Bellevue, WA office, or you may work remotely from anywhere in the US where Smartsheet is a registered employer. You Will: Architect AI Agents: Take a leading role in designing Agentic Workflows using AWS Step Functions and Bedrock Agents that reason
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Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer-AI Security to join our team. This is a Hybrid (based in San Jose, CA or Bellevue, WA with a 3 days in office requirement) role, reporting to the Director of Software Engineering in the Emerging Tech department. You will be responsible for designing and implementing core infrastructure components and distributed systems, serving as a foundational architect for our AI security solution. This high-impact role focuses on scaling security infrastructure to support hundreds of millions of users, collaborating with stakeholders across the development lifecycle to drive innovation and technical excellence. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Architect, develop, and optimize a low-latency, high-throughput AI Security plane utilizing Rust, specifically leveraging its async/await model for highly efficient I/O and service-oriented architecture Build resi
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Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™️ platform protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. Distributed across 160+ public exchanges globally and thousands of private exchanges at the edge, the SASE-based Zero Trust Exchange is the world’s largest in-line cloud security platform. We believe the future of work is Human + AI and are building an AI-native enterprise where human potential is amplified by machine intelligence to solve the world’s hardest security challenges. Driven by deep customer obsession, we are committed to the mission, outcome, and to each other. We bring these commitments to life through three core behaviors: ownership and collaboration, trust through outcomes and impact, and a challenge culture with ongoing feedback. Ready to make an impact at the company pioneering security transformation in the AI era? Join us at Zscaler. Role We are looking for a Senior Staff Rust Developer to join our Platform Convergence Team. This is a hybrid role based in San Jose, CA reporting to the Sr. Director, Software Engineering. Join us to build a new platform from the ground up that can scale hundreds of millions of users with high reliability and low latency. You will design and implement distributed system and core infrastructure components while collaborating closely with various stakeholders. What you’ll do (Role Expectations) Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust, leveraging its async/await model for efficient I/O and service-oriented infrastructure Develop distributed, scalable systems with a focus on concurrency, fault tolerance, and messaging Implement and maintain gRPC-based APIs and services to integrate forwarding plane capabilities with control and orchestration layers Optimize system
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. Engineering Manager, Cloud Efficiency Snowflake runs large scale cloud infrastructure to deliver its own service — production and internal deployments, Kubernetes fleets, CI/CD, etc. Our cloud spend is in billions of dollars per year. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Efficiency engineering team. In this role, you will own the technical vision and execution for building a unified, self-serve cloud efficiency platform along with AI skills and agents that makes resource usage and spend attributable and governable while driving insights and optimization of our cloud spend. AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER IN CLOUD EFFICIENCY, YOU WILL: Lead and grow our talented team of software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning. Drive the roadmap for Cloud Efficiency — translating company-level spend objectives into engineering systems: authoritative cost data, resource ownership registry, attribution pipelines, cost and unit economics modeling, observability, governance policies, and optimization workflows — in partnership with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Data Science. Set technical strategy for backend systems, data pipelines, and APIs that measure, attribute and surface cost and usage insights at
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. Location: Bellevue, WA Engineering Manager, Cost Intelligence We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Cost Intelligence engineering team. In this role, you will own the technical vision and execution for the features and systems that help Snowflake customers understand, monitor, and optimize their Snowflake consumption and spend. You will lead a talented team of engineers building the data products, APIs, and platform services that power cost visibility, usage analytics, budgeting, and cost optimization insights across Snowflake's platform. You'll work closely with Product Management, Design, Data Science, and cross-functional engineering teams to ship world-class cost intelligence capabilities to Snowflake's customer base. As manager for the Cost Intelligence team, you will: Lead and grow our talented team of software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning. Drive the roadmap for Cost Intelligence features — including cost allocation, resource budgeting, anomaly detection, and optimization recommendations — in partnership with product management. Set technical strategy for backend systems, data pipelines, and APIs that surface cost and usage insights to customers at massive scale. Own delivery end
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. Team Scope You'll lead a team of 10 engineers owning the Developer Experience for authoring data engineering workloads, reporting to the manager who oversees DEX across all geographies. Every place a data engineer writes, runs, automates, or debugs their work is something we build, shape, or contribute to: Workspaces — the primary browser-based, multi-file IDE in Snowsight. Full-stack: a React/TypeScript front end on top of our own backend platform. We are the single largest contributor to this surface in net-new feature capabilities. Cortex Code Desktop — the local, VS Code-grade development experience for building on Snowflake (CoCo). We develop DE-focused experiences inside of the Desktop editor as first-class experiences. Cortex Code CLI — the command-line developer experience for the same workflows, for engineers who live in the terminal. We develop skills that go out to customers, as well as frameworks and technologies internally to build and test the agent and skills more rapidly. Pipeline Observability UIs — the in-product monitoring surfaces for deployed pipeline objects in Snowflake The products you'll ship on those surfaces dbt Projects on Snowflake (GA) — build, run, schedule, and monitor dbt natively inside Snowflake, no external orchestrator. DCM (Database Cha
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. We’re hiring a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team at Snowflake. Snowtrail is the infrastructure that enables Snowflake to deliver dedicated coverage for customer-specific workloads. Its innovative approach allows Snowflake to precisely test and measure the impact of changes on individual customers, making it essential for ensuring the platform’s reliability, correctness, and performance. Through query replay, Snowtrail helps us catch regressions early. By leveraging machine learning models to intelligently sample queries and workloads, we continuously optimize for both cost and performance. Evolving Snowtrail to incorporate new engine features while improving scalability, efficiency, and reliability is central to our continued success OUR IDEAL MANAGER WILL HAVE : Strong passion and proven track record for shipping quality software in high code velocity environments 10+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems. Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. Fluency in SQL, Java, C++, Python or Go. Ability to collaborate well across teams, build high-performing teams and mentor junior engineers. Excellent interpersonal co
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. Senior Software Engineer — Cortex Training The Snowflake ML Platform team's mission is to let customers run their most demanding ML/AI workloads inside Snowflake. Cortex Training is our LLM post-training platform: it turns scarce, expensive GPU capacity into a simple, composable service, so customers can adapt open-weight foundation models to their own business problems while we handle the hard distributed-systems parts, including scheduling, orchestration, multi-node training and inference, fault tolerance, and throughput. The platform already runs post-training at scale. Under the hood, it decouples GPU computation from the training loop and exposes it as primitive APIs that compose into everything from SFT to full RL workflows. You'll work alongside a team that ships fast & sweats reliability and the researchers behind DeepSpeed. We're looking for an engineer who thrives in the ML infrastructure layer and brings a solid understanding of LLMs and post-training to help us scale and grow it. YOU WILL: Design and build across the full stack — from the public training APIs and SDK through the control plane to the GPU data plane. Scale the distributed systems that make GPU compute serverless — multi-tenant scheduling, placement, and capacity-aware routing across regional G
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. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our Anti-Abuse team within Security Foundations. This team is responsible for protecting Snowflake and our customers from abuse on the Snowflake platform — building foundational security primitives across a complex multi-cloud environment to combat fraud, account takeovers, data exfiltration, and AI security threats at the scale of Snowflake’s hyper-growth. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, SECURITY FOUNDATIONS AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Design, build, and scale security-by-default capabilities that protect Snowflake products across a complex multi-cloud environment Develop intelligent security platforms and services that leverage AI/ML and risk scoring to identify, prioritize, and respond to security threats and policy violations Build real-time detection and prevention systems to defend against account compromise, AI abuse, and data exfiltration through adaptive enforcement and granular policy controls Create security intelligence and monitoring capabilities that detect suspicious account & user activity, generate actionable insights, and enable timely response Partner across Security, Engineering, and Product teams to define security strategy, influence product design, and drive adoption of secure engineering practices Raise the
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. We are looking for talented systems developers and researchers to join the Snowflake AI Research team and advance the state of the art in LLM inference systems and optimization . Our mission is to build the next generation of high-performance and intelligent inference systems . We optimize not only how fast and efficiently models run, but also how quickly inference systems can adapt to new models, architectures, hardware, and workloads. Our work spans the full inference stack—from distributed serving and runtime systems to GPU kernels and model-system co-design. We explore techniques such as adaptive parallelism, speculative and parallel decoding, disaggregated inference, scheduling and batching, KV-cache optimization, model swapping, quantization, and GPU kernel optimization to push the frontier of latency, throughput, scalability, and cost. Beyond optimizing individual models, we are building intelligent and adaptive inference systems that can automate performance optimization—rapidly profiling new models and workloads, identifying bottlenecks, selecting effective execution strategies, and adapting system configurations with minimal manual tuning. We embrace AI-native engineering , using AI not only as the workload we optimize, but also as a tool to accelerate system deve
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. Snowflake runs large scale cloud infrastructure to deliver its own service — production and internal deployments, Kubernetes fleets, CI/CD, etc. Our cloud spend is in billions of dollars per year. The Cloud Efficiency team builds a unified, self-serve cloud efficiency platform along with AI skills and agents that makes spend observable, attributable, governable while driving recommendations and optimization of our cloud spend. AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Design, develop, and maintain scalable platform for resource ownership registry, usage attribution, utilization measurement, and cost modeling. Build AI agents, tools and automation to enhance system monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis. Improve and optimize data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency for cloud utilization, cost and efficiency data at scale. Collaborate with teams across Snowflake to understand attribution and observability needs and implement solutions that improve operational visibility. Contribute to open-source and industry best practices in monitoring and distributed systems monitoring. Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of team-managed platforms by participating in on-call rotations and incident management. Partner with Finance, Product and Engineering
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