Senior Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Data Compute

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 287,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

401(k)

Medical, dental, vision

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Snowpark Container Service to help build an elastic, high-scale compute platform. You will lead engineers, design features, and drive reliability for our cloud-native container compute surface. In this role, you’ll influence architecture and scale across the Snowpark ecosystem.

Join a fast-moving team to deliver impactful products and collaborate across Snowflake Compute Platform areas, with a focus on performance and multi-tenant reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building large-scale systems or infrastructure platforms.
• Strong CS fundamentals and distributed systems experience.
• Hands-on coding in Java, C++, or Go; ability to mentor.
• Ability to work on-site in Bellevue and lead teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features; understand customer needs and goals.
• Lead a team of engineers; set technical direction and strategy.
• Manage design, coding, reviews, testing, observability, and on-call support.
• Build reliable, scalable, cloud-native container compute features.
• Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of the service.
• Contribute to Snowpark Container Services in early development.

Skills

7+ years experience

Distributed systems

Java

C++

Go

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Snowflake is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Snowpark Container Service to help build an elastic, high-scale compute platform. You will lead engineers, design features, and drive reliability for our cloud-native container compute surface. In this role, you’ll influence architecture and scale across the Snowpark ecosystem.

Join a fast-moving team to deliver impactful products and collaborate across Snowflake Compute Platform areas, with a focus on performance and multi-tenant reliability.