# Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $236k – $339k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Go, AWS, Azure, GCP, Distributed Systems, Cluster Management, Automation, Multi-Cloud Platforms, Gpu Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-05-18

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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