engineering
Posted May 18Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform
at Snowflake
On-site
Responsibilities
- - Identify and drive cross-team technical improvements across the platform, from architecture through adoption.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
- experience for thousands of internal engineers and continuing to scale the platform to meet Snowflake's growth.
- 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).
- experience that teams actually want to use. That's the scale we're building toward, and we want someone who's been there. Nice to Have -
- Experience with GPU infrastructure or AI/ML training workloads at scale. - Open source contributions to Kubernetes or related ecosystem projects.
- Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
- Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth.
Benefits
- How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and
Contact
- benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com
Additional details
- At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
- 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.
- The work is to make that fleet reliable, automated, and invisible to the thousands of engineers building on top of it.
- This is a staff-level role on a senior, high-performing platform team.
- You'll own hard problems end to end, drive technical direction across teams, and build the automation and platform abstractions that make operating at this scale sustainable.
- 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.
- - 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
- What Sets You Apart You've built platforms where your work quietly enabled hundreds or thousands of engineers to ship faster and more reliably.