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SnowflakeSnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform

Staff-level engineer owning design and operations of Snowflake's large-scale Kubernetes container platform across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Focus on reliability, automation, and developer experience for internal engineering teams.

236k – 339k/yr
HybridDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Own the design and delivery of large, complex platform initiatives spanning cluster lifecycle management, multi-cloud automation, and internal developer tooling.
  • Identify and drive cross-team technical improvements across the platform, from architecture through adoption.
  • Make and defend architectural trade-offs grounded in reliability, scalability, and operational reality.
  • Act as a technical anchor for the team, developing expertise in others, raising engineering standards, and being the person engineers turn to on hard problems.
  • Treat internal engineers as your primary customers and measure success by their velocity and the reliability of their experience on the platform.

What We're Looking For

  • Significant experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
  • Experience owning Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems in production at scale: cluster lifecycle, upgrades, and fleet management across a large heterogeneous fleet.
  • Proficient in Go or a comparable systems language.
  • Experience operating across multiple clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Nice to Have

  • Experience with GPU infrastructure or AI/ML training workloads at scale.
  • Open source contributions to Kubernetes or related ecosystem projects.

Skills

KubernetesGoAWSAzureGCPDistributed SystemsCluster ManagementAutomationMulti-Cloud PlatformsGpu Infrastructure

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