Software Engineer — Platform
Snorkel AIBase Salary
$220k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build safe, reliable agent infrastructure for engineering and operations workflows.
- Implement event-driven data flows with event brokers, CDC connectors, schema registries, event routing, and dead letter queues.
- Build data lineage, governance, RBAC, auditing, PII handling, retention enforcement, and enterprise compliance infrastructure.
- Set strategy and architecture for build systems, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines while advancing continuous deployment.
- Instrument services with OpenTelemetry, define and monitor SLOs, build alerting, and participate in on-call operations.
- Improve infrastructure cost visibility and optimization through query cost estimation, workload right-sizing, and storage-tier routing.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to improve codebases, infrastructure, and processes.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of production experience building platform infrastructure, backend services, or data systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience designing APIs for internal services and developers.
- Strong distributed systems and cloud platform experience, preferably AWS, including hands-on experience with S3, RDS, EKS, EventBridge, and IAM.
- Experience with Terraform-managed environments.
- Familiarity with Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster and transformation frameworks such as dbt.
- Understanding of RBAC, PII handling, audit logging, and data lineage.
- Track record of leading complex engineering initiatives, influencing stakeholders, and delivering measurable impact.
- Strong technical communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to adopt and evaluate modern developer tooling.
- Experience with shared libraries or SDKs, versioning, backwards compatibility, and migration support is preferred.
- Experience with event-driven architectures, CDC, event buses, schema registries, and at-least-once delivery semantics is preferred.
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, or similar observability infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience in regulated environments such as SOC 2, FedRAMP, or HIPAA is preferred.
- Experience with Ray or similar distributed compute frameworks is preferred.
- Experience in hyper-growth startups or scaling engineering organizations is preferred.
- Prior experience as a Tech Lead, Team Lead, or hands-on Engineering Manager is preferred.
Benefits
- Meaningful ownership over infrastructure and services used by every product team and customer deployment.
- Opportunities to shape strategic priorities, architecture, and company decisions in a rapidly scaling environment.
- Support for technical development, leadership growth, cross-functional learning, and career progression.
- Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.
About Snorkel AI
Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine platform technology with research-driven data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes. Snorkel led the development of Senior SWE-Bench and launched Open Benchmarks Grants with a $3 million commitment to support open-source datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation research. Supported projects include Agents’ Last Exam, OSWorld 2.0, Terminal-Bench, Continual Learning Bench, and SlopCode Bench. Learn more at snorkel.ai or follow @SnorkelAI.