Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Product (Backend-Focused)
$208k - $315k • San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Posted 8h ago
Job Location
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
LLM Engineer
About the job
Snorkel AI is seeking Senior and Staff Product Engineers with strong backend experience to help shape and deliver product capabilities that simplify complex workflows for users. This role involves owning backend features from concept to production, collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams. You will be instrumental in building and evolving APIs, services, data models, and workflow capabilities that support the product, focusing on areas like data cataloging, agent benchmarking, and workflow automation. The ideal candidate possesses sound technical judgment and a commitment to product quality, usability, and impact.
Responsibilities
- Build, ship, and improve backend product capabilities, owning work from understanding the user problem through design, implementation, launch, and production support.
- Partner closely with Product Managers, designers, and engineers to shape features and turn user needs into intuitive, reliable product experiences.
- Build and evolve APIs, services, data models, and workflow capabilities that support the product.
- Help develop products for cataloging and searching data, benchmarking agent performance, and automating post-production and delivery workflows.
- Investigate and resolve issues across services and data flows, including performance and production problems.
- Contribute to technical and architecture decisions, with attention to scalability, maintainability, and the needs of the product.
- Participate in code reviews and help raise the quality of the team’s engineering work.
- Identify opportunities to improve the product and its underlying systems, and propose practical solutions.
Requirements
- Strong backend or backend-oriented full-stack experience building and improving a product.
- A track record of contributing to polished, intuitive products that make complex tasks easier for users.
- Experience partnering with Product Managers and other cross-functional teammates to understand user needs and shape product features.
- Experience building and maintaining backend services and APIs, and working with data stores and queries.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to write reliable, maintainable code.
- The ability to investigate technical problems, debug effectively, and make sound decisions within your area of ownership.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to explain technical decisions to both engineering and cross-functional partners.
- The ability to work independently while collaborating closely with a team.
- Experience with data-heavy products, such as products for organizing, cataloging, searching, or querying complex datasets.
- Experience with agent workflows, agent evaluations, benchmarking, or analyzing traces of agent activity.
- Experience building workflow automation; familiarity with DAGs is helpful but not required.
- Experience in developer tools or other products with sophisticated user workflows.
- Experience taking a product feature from an initial user problem through launch and continued improvement.