# Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Efficiency

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA, Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Python, Java, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, LLMs, Distributed Systems, cloud monitoring, data ingestion, Incident Management
**Posted:** 2026-08-10

> Senior software engineer building scalable monitoring and observability products that govern and optimize Snowflake’s cloud spend. The role requires 5+ years of large-scale production engineering experience and proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable monitoring solutions for cloud cost and efficiency.
- Build tools and automation to enhance system monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.
- Improve and optimize data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency for monitoring cloud-efficiency data at scale.
- Collaborate with teams across Snowflake to understand monitoring needs and implement solutions that improve operational visibility.
- Contribute to open-source projects and industry best practices in monitoring and distributed systems monitoring.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of monitoring systems through on-call rotations and incident management.
- Drive engineering strategy and deliverables with clear company impact.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex production issues.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
- 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 and Prometheus.
- Prior experience working with large language models (LLMs).

## Compensation and Benefits
- For jobs located in the United States, salary and benefits information is available on the Snowflake Careers Site.

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