Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Efficiency
Design and build scalable systems that monitor, govern, and optimize cloud spending across Snowflake. The role requires 7+ years of production systems experience, strong programming and architectural skills, and expertise in cloud efficiency or observability.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable monitoring solutions for cloud cost and efficiency.
- Build tools and automation for system monitoring, alerting, and root-cause analysis.
- Improve and optimize data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency for cloud-efficiency data at scale.
- Collaborate across teams to understand monitoring needs and improve operational visibility.
- Contribute to open-source projects and industry best practices in monitoring and distributed systems.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance through on-call rotations and incident management.
- Drive strategy and deliverables with measurable company impact.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale production systems.
- Experience with cost optimization and efficiency work on systems built on large private or public clouds.
- Deep systems and architectural analysis experience to identify actionable performance and efficiency insights.
- Track record of delivering large cross-functional projects with measurable impact.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
- Excellent problem-solving and production troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Nice to Have
- Experience developing or using observability infrastructure such as OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
- Prior experience working with large language models.
Skills
Go, Python, Java, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Cloud Cost Optimization, Distributed Systems, System Monitoring, Data Ingestion, Root Cause Analysis, LLMs
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