Senior Principal Engineer - Front 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.

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.

AS THE SENIOR PRINCIPAL FRONT END ENGINEER YOU WILL:

• 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.
  

OUR IDEAL SENIOR PRINCIPAL FRONT END ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 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.

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

  
  

WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

BUILDING CUTTING EDGE CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES IS COMPLEX, AND OUR ENGINEERING TEAM SURMOUNTS THE OBSTACLES. AS A MEMBER OF OUR TEAM, YOU WILL:

• Build an industry-leading data platform that customers love.

• Create intuitive, elegant, and accessible user interfaces that make a powerful and highly technical product simple to use.

• Building the next generation of generative interfaces and AI-driven agents

• Learn about and contribute to:

  • Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services hundreds of customers and millions of complex queries daily.

  • Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.

  • User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.

• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

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