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Software Engineer – Engineering Systems Continuous Integration Team

Build and evolve large-scale CI infrastructure for Snowflake's developer platform, ensuring high performance and productivity for engineering teams. Requires 5+ years in distributed systems, CI experience, and fluency in Java/C++/Python/Go.

236k – 339k/yr
Hybrid5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve a world-class developer platform and CI service powering Snowflake repositories.
  • Set technical standards for elastic, large-scale, highly performant CI infrastructure with simplicity at core.
  • Drive strategy, partner with product managers on quarterly and long-term roadmaps.
  • Ensure execution meets current customer needs while anticipating future technological trends.

Requirements

  • 5+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
  • Track record of technical leadership.
  • Experience working on enterprise-grade Continuous Integration for Cloud-based distributed systems.
  • Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, distributed systems.
  • Fluency in Java, C++, Python, or Go.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to collaborate, mentor junior engineers.
  • Strategic mindset, prioritization for maximum impact.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Developing data or distributed systems internals.
  • Experience with Jenkins, ArgoCD, or other CI suites.
  • Multi-tenant systems (reliability, performance, isolation, security).
  • Authoring roadmap documents, project plans, RCAs.

Skills

JavaC++PythonGoJenkinsArgo CDDistributed SystemsContinuous IntegrationData StructuresAlgorithms

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