Lead, Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Engineering

We are hiring talented Senior Software Engineers for our Cloud Engineering team. If you are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex infrastructure challenges by creating abstraction or automated solutions, this opportunity may be for you.  As part of the Cloud Engineering organization where we have a strong focus on using engineering and software practices to manage and scale our cloud infrastructure. 

The Cloud Engineering team drives development of an innovative platform; builds foundational primitives such as traffic management, compute, and infrastructure automation to abstract away Snowflake's multi-cloud footprint, making it easy for Snowflake product teams to deploy software.  What our teams build allow engineers across the company to move manual operational tasks into code. Our team also owns the process of deploying Snowflake globally across multiple cloud providers, using our own platform to automate rollout and management of cloud infrastructure at a scale few companies can match.

Our Cloud Engineering team  builds database automation, manages traffic, builds infrastructure automation, and compute platform,  and scales our production environment.  You will build a deep understanding of Snowflake’s infrastructure and services. You will use that knowledge, coupled with your existing infrastructure and cloud experience, to optimize and evolve our infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, performance, and cost efficiency. You’ll lead and contribute to initiatives aimed at scaling our processes, systems, services and automation.

To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own alongside strong peers. You will have the opportunity to present and defend engineering proposals that can have a significant impact on the success of our team and the company as a whole. As part of our team, you will be supporting other teams as they use our platform, so you must possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills. 

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to demonstrate infrastructure and cloud expertise. You must have the ability to take large, complex projects from conception to completion with minimal guidance. In addition, you will be expected to mentor and support more junior team members, lead technical work in a Technical Lead capacity, driving design, communication with stakeholders and helping to coach and mentor more junior developers.  You’ll lead by example with excellent code quality, documentation, and SDLC best practices.

If you love solving problems at scale, enjoy automating away complex manual tasks, are an ace troubleshooter, and want to have an impact at a company that is redefining the world of cloud data solutions, then this is the role for you!

AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - CLOUD ENGINEERING AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Contribute to the team charter to build and operate highly scalable and resilient, scalable, and performant infrastructure.  
• Research and implement solutions to build a highly reliable and scalable platform, tools, infrastructure, automation and systems in the cloud.
• Evangelize and drive adoption of the platform to meet business goals. 
• Tech Lead : Provide technical leadership on complex and challenging projects in the automation and cloud infrastructure space.

OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - CLOUD ENGINEERING AT SNOWFLAKE, WILL HAVE:

• BS/CS, MS/CS or equivalent.
• At least 10+ years experience in a platform or Cloud team building and supporting mission critical services and infrastructure in a SaaS environment.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, coding skills, and knowledge of SDLC best practices.
• At least 3+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Fluent in one or more languages (Golang, Java, Python, C).  
• Expertise in at least one of the following areas: container platform development and operation, automation, networking, edge computing, config management, infrastructure as code solutions such as Pulumi and Terraform.
• Tremendous attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• A strong work ethic, technical leadership experience, and an ability to drive project success, as well as a passion for problem solving.