Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER- CLOUD ENGINEERING 

United States, California 

574253773

Our Cloud Engineering team builds database automation, manages traffic, builds infrastructure automation, and compute platform and scales our production environment. You will build a deep understanding of Snowflake’s infrastructure and services. You will use that knowledge, coupled with your existing infrastructure and cloud experience, to optimize and evolve our infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, performance, and cost efficiency. You’ll lead and contribute to initiatives aimed at scaling our processes, systems, services and automation.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to demonstrate infrastructure and cloud expertise. You must have the ability to take large, complex projects from conception to completion with minimal guidance. In addition, you will be expected to mentor and support more junior team members, leading by example with excellent code quality, documentation, and SDLC best practices.

• Contribute to the team charter to build and operate highly scalable and resilient, scalable, and performant infrastructure.

• Research and implement solutions to build a highly reliable and scalable platform, tools, infrastructure, automation and systems in the cloud.

• Evangelize and drive adoption of the platform to meet business goals.

• Provide technical leadership on complex and challenging projects in the automation and cloud infrastructure space.

• BS/CS, MS/CS or equivalent.

• At least 6+ years experience in a platform or Cloud team building and supporting mission critical services and infrastructure in a SaaS environment.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, coding skills, and knowledge of SDLC best practices.

• At least 3+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure or GCP).

• Fluent in one or more languages (Golang, Java, Python, C).

• Expertise in at least one of the following areas: container platform development and operation, automation, networking, edge computing, config management, infrastructure as code solutions such as Pulumi and Terraform.

• Tremendous attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems.

• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.

• A strong work ethic, ability to self-manage and drive project success, and a passion for problem solving.

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

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