Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform

About the role

We build the foundational container platform that runs Snowflake's production, AI/ML, and CI workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including a rapidly growing AI/ML footprint. Hundreds of large Kubernetes clusters under management and growing.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Treat internal engineers as your primary customers and measure success by their velocity and the reliability of their experience on the platform.

Requirements

• 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).

Qualifications

• You've built platforms where your work quietly enabled hundreds or thousands of engineers to ship faster and more reliably.
• You've made platform decisions with real blast radius: deprecating an API, rolling out a breaking change, or designing a self-service experience that teams actually want to use.

Skills

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

Benefits

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee’s duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. 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.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this role is $236,000 - $339,200. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan. The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Schedule

This role is full-time.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible spending & health savings account.
• At least 12 paid holidays.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Employee assistance program.
• Other company benefits.

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