Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Platform
Snorkel AI · New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Posted 27 days ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 27 days Snorkel AI's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 42% of Snorkel AI's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Snorkel AI
- high 24 stale, 5 reposted of 38 open
- Hiring momentum
- 58 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Snorkel AI's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Snorkel AI.
About this role
As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team at Snorkel, you will design and build the infrastructure that supports the company's AI products, focusing on event-driven architectures and data governance. Your responsibilities will include developing agent infrastructure, implementing event-driven data flows, and ensuring compliance with data handling standards. This role involves significant decision-making regarding the foundational architecture that will influence the company's scalability and reliability.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Snorkel AI as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years building platform infrastructure, backend services, or data systems in production
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience designing REST APIs for internal services
- Strong background in distributed systems and cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Hands-on experience with services like S3, RDS, EKS, EventBridge, and IAM
- Familiarity with data orchestration tools (Prefect, Airflow, or Dagster)
Nice to have
- Experience building shared libraries or SDKs consumed by multiple teams
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, or similar observability infrastructure
- Prior work in regulated environments (SOC 2, FedRAMP, HIPAA)
- Experience with Ray or similar frameworks for distributed compute workloads
Worth weighing
- No specific benefits listed in the posting
- Role involves being on-call for the systems built
- The salary range is broad, which may indicate negotiation flexibility or varying expectations based on experience
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Listed by Snorkel AI on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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