Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Efficiency

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus & equity plan

Competitive benefits package (medical,

Job summary

Snowflake in the United States seeks a Software Engineer to design and maintain scalable monitoring for cloud cost and efficiency. You will build tools, improve ingestion and query performance, and collaborate across teams to raise operational visibility.

We're looking for 5+ years of production experience, proficiency in Go, Python or Java, and experience with OpenTelemetry/Prometheus. The role offers a strong compensation package including bonus/equity and robust benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale production systems.
• Experience with cost optimization and efficiency on cloud-based systems.
• Strong architectural analysis skills to derive actionable performance insights.
• Experience with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry or Prometheus is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable monitoring solutions for cloud cost and efficiency.
• Build tools to enhance system monitoring, alerting, and incident analysis.
• Improve data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency for monitoring data at scale.
• Collaborate with teams across Snowflake to meet monitoring needs and improve operational visibility.
• Contribute to open-source and industry best practices in monitoring.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

Cost optimization

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Job description

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’s cloud spend is in billions of dollars per year. Hence, it is critical for us to govern and optimize our cloud spend, both for margins and long-term competitive advantage. Cloud Efficiency team’s charter is to build scalable products that enable governance, monitoring and optimization of cloud spend. Think of this as Observability for cloud costs and efficiency. The team’s vision is "Transform cloud spend into a competitive advantage by empowering teams to continuously optimize the per-unit cost."

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable monitoring solutions for cloud cost and efficiency
• Build tools and automation to enhance system monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.
• Improve and optimize data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency for monitoring cloud efficiency data at scale.
• Collaborate with teams across Snowflake to understand monitoring needs and implement solutions that improve operational visibility.
• Contribute to open-source and industry best practices in monitoring and distributed systems monitoring.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of monitoring systems by participating in on-call rotations and incident management.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR:

• 5+years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
• Experience with cost optimization and efficiency work on systems built on large private clouds or public cloud providers
• Deep system and architectural analysis experience to identify actionable performance and efficiency insights
• History of delivering large cross functional projects with measurable impact
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python or Java.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a production environment.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
• BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields
• Experience developing or using observability infrastructure such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus etc is a plus.
• Prior background working with LLMs is a plus

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?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $287,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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