# Senior Software Engineer, Snowpark Container Service

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Java, C++, Go, Distributed Systems, AWS, Azure, GCP
**Posted:** 2026-07-14

> Senior Software Engineer building Snowflake's Snowpark Container Services, a managed Kubernetes-based platform for running containerized applications inside Snowflake's Data Cloud. Lead engineering efforts on highly scalable, reliable, multi-tenant container compute infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
- Lead a team of engineers, including mentoring and guiding them, and build technical direction and strategy for large and critical parts of the product surface area.
- Manage all aspects of the Project, including Design, Coding, Reviews, Testing, Observability, Tooling and On-Call support.
- Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
- Ensure operational readiness and maintainability of the service with heavy focus on reliability, availability, debuggability and performance.
- Design and build Kubernetes based OCI compliant container compute platform features and capabilities that scale and evolve with changing business and customer needs.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience building features and capabilities of large scale systems or infrastructure level platforms.
- Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills and experience building distributed systems.
- Hands-on coding experience in Java, C++ or Go.
- Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office.
- Excitement to learn new things and passion to learn and grow.
- Be a team player with emphasis on transparency, knowledge sharing, and helping each other.
- Work across functions and across teams.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building products or services with Kubernetes.
- Designing and implementing products and features with multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Implementing multi-tenant systems with focus on performance, isolation and security.

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