Senior Software Engineer, Accelerated Delivery

Snowflake; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking engineers to design and operate large-scale release platforms across multi-cloud environments. You will enable safe, automated deployments and progressive delivery through robust tooling and guardrails.

You will collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to simplify deployment, observation, and operation, while advancing AI-assisted, autonomous workflows for safer rollouts.

Qualifications

• Experience building or operating continuous deployment or release platforms at scale.
• Strong background with Kubernetes-based systems and safe rollout across distributed production environments.
• Proficiency in Golang, Java, C++, or similar systems languages plus Python/Bash scripting.
• Experience with distributed systems, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments.
• Data-driven mindset with observability tools to evaluate system and rollout health.

Responsibilities

• Design and build continuous deployment and rollout infrastructure for Snowflake’s multi-cloud production environment.
• Evolve platform capabilities for progressive delivery, including canaries, health checks, and rollback controls.
• Improve engineering velocity by automating release pipelines and reducing manual workflows.
• Build internal platforms to support large-scale release orchestration on Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with product and infra teams to simplify deployment, validation, observation, and operation of services.
• Apply AI-assisted, autonomous release workflows to improve rollout safety and developer productivity.

Skills

Kubernetes

Golang

Java

C++

Python

Bash

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Tools

Prometheus

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

In this role, you will

• Design and build continuous deployment and rollout infrastructure that safely ships changes across Snowflake’s large-scale, multi-cloud production environment.

• Build and evolve platform capabilities for progressive delivery, including staged rollouts, canarying, automated health checks, rollback controls, and guardrails that reduce blast radius during production change events.

• Improve engineering velocity by removing friction from release pipelines and replacing manual workflows with durable platform abstractions and automation.

• Build internal platforms that support large-scale release orchestration, application rollouts on Kubernetes, and broader production change workflows.

• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to make their services easier to deploy, validate, observe, and operate through well-designed platform capabilities.

• Implement and evolve deployment methodologies such as GitOps-inspired workflows, infrastructure as code, policy-driven automation, and progressive delivery patterns appropriate for Snowflake’s environment.

• Build systems that evaluate rollout health using metrics, logs, alerts, and operational signals to detect regressions early and trigger safe mitigation or rollback paths.

• Develop self-service developer tooling that enables teams across Snowflake to adopt safe deployment patterns without requiring deep release expertise.

• Build automation and guardrails that reduce operational toil and make production change workflows more consistent, scalable, and resilient.

• Design and build AI-assisted, agentic-driven, and increasingly autonomous release workflows that improve rollout intelligence, developer productivity, and deployment safety.

You may be a strong fit if you

• Have experience building or operating continuous deployment, release engineering, or production change platforms at scale.

• Have worked with Kubernetes-based systems and understand how to safely roll changes across distributed production environments.

• Have strong software engineering skills in Golang, Java, C++, or similar systems languages, along with Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.

• Have experience with distributed systems, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud environments.

• Bring a data-driven mindset and have experience using observability platforms such as Prometheus, Datadog, or Grafana to evaluate system and rollout health.

• Care deeply about safe production rollouts, developer experience, minimizing blast radius, and building systems that make the right operational path the easiest one.

• Enjoy building internal platforms and self-service systems that improve developer productivity across a large engineering organization.

• Apply a combined software engineering and DevOps mindset to design, build, and continuously improve large-scale delivery platforms in production.

• Are excited about applying AI and intelligent automation to release operations, deployment safety, and autonomous workflows.

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.

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