Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.

We are hiring a Staff Software Engineer for our Container Platform team.

Our team builds the foundational container platform that powers Snowflake's core services across AWS, Azure, and GCP. We're building a scalable, automated platform that handles the complexity of our core services so our product teams don't have to. We focus on solving the hard engineering problems required to make multi-cloud infrastructure feel seamless, solving for massive-scale orchestration. If you enjoy designing and building the core infrastructure services that run reliably at scale, this is the team for you.

AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER - CONTAINER PLATFORM AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Build, influence and evolve Snowflake’s core infrastructure and services.

• Apply both infrastructure and software engineering knowledge to deliver a highly scalable, resilient, and performant platform.

• Provide technical leadership on large, complex projects that span infrastructure, platforms, tools, and automation in the cloud.

• Demonstrate strategic ownership, including identifying cross-team and cross-organisation problem spaces, and driving efforts to address those.

• Use your engineering craft skills to make architectural trade-offs based on software design principles and company goals.

• Champion platform adoption to meet business goals across partner teams.

• Act as a role model and force multiplier, developing expertise in others and driving engineering standards across the team.

• Contribute with excellent code quality, documentation, and software development best practices.

OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER - CONTAINER PLATFORM AT SNOWFLAKE WILL HAVE:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

• 8+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting large scale systems in production.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals.

• Proficient in at least one modern programming language, for example Go, Java, Rust, or C++.

• Hands-on experience in platform engineering or cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; proven ability to build alignment across teams.

• Ownership mindset, self-direction, and a passion for solving complex problems.

• Tech lead experience.

• Experience with containers and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.

• Strong distributed troubleshooting and incident resolution skills.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

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