Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform
AI summary of the role
Staff-level platform engineer owning the container orchestration layer that runs Snowflake's production, AI/ML, and CI workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
What you’ll bring
- 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).
Technologies
Kubernetes · Go · AWS · Azure · GCP · cluster lifecycle management · multi-cloud automation · internal developer tooling · GPU infrastructure · AI/ML training workloads
About Snowflake
Cloud-native data platform letting enterprises run analytics, AI/ML, and apps on governed data across AWS, Azure, and GCP without moving it.
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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. Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform (Menlo Park) About the Role We build the foundational container platform that runs Snowflake's production, AI/ML, and CI workloads across AWS,How jobs are selected
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