Senior Principal Engineer - Front End

Snowflake•Menlo Park, CA

13d

About The Position

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. Snowflake is the fastest growing Cloud Data Platform in history, focused on building the best visual user experience in the industry. As the Senior Principal Engineer - Front End, you will unify the experience across multiple Snowflake platforms. A core part of this is developing AI-powered interfaces and rethinking architecture to support dynamic, agent-generated UIs for SnowSight. We are currently evolving Snowsight and our AI tools (like Cortex Code) to support high-capability agents that navigate complex data tasks autonomously. We are seeking an architect with deep experience in building cutting-edge apps. This leader must be both a hands-on coder to set the technical standard and a strong organizational driver for horizontal programs, while leveraging the resources of a major player with a decisive 'ship-it-today' startup mentality.

Requirements

Significant software development experience, including 15+ years of experience in building AI-powered interfaces and shipping world class experiences required.
Deep understanding of modern web applications design architecture, good API design patterns, performance and scale.
Experience in the software development lifecycle process, including analysis and design, APIs, development tools and technologies, release and version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management
Demonstrated technical leadership experience, such as being an architect or tech lead for high impact customer facing projects.
Experience in modern technologies such as javascript, typescript, react, angular, node.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Canvas, SVG and other visualization tools/libraries is a plus.

Responsibilities

Be the voice of Product experiences in the company wide technical architects forum and participate in defining the future technical direction for the company.
Define the architectural vision for the UI Experiences platform and ensure consistency of design abstractions across the entire product surface
Develop innovative platform offerings, with a global mindset, and to operate across regional boundaries
Promote strong collaboration within a cross functional team, including design, product management.
Deliver features requiring close coordination with several sister teams such as data engineering, AI/ML and Cortex.
Be a strong contributor to the product vision and drive team planning.
Motivate others to act, creating a compelling vision for the future, communicating clearly, and using a collaborative leadership approach.
Build for scale and high performance.