Principal Software Engineer, Container Platform

We’re hiring talented PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER for Container Platform that are passionate about using software-based approaches to solve complex infrastructure challenges and automate those solutions.  You’ll be 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.  Working in cloud engineering, you’ll lead and contribute to initiatives aimed at scaling our infrastructure, process, systems, and automation.  You’ll build a deep understanding of Snowflake's service and use that knowledge, coupled with your infrastructure and cloud knowledge, to optimize and evolve our infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, and price/performance. 

You’ll work with some of the brightest engineers in the valley. To be successful, you’ll need to be deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers.  You possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, including using tools like Terraform, Ansible. You’ll have strong software development fundamentals and skills. In addition, you’ll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

If you love solving problems at scale, prefer to write scalable, reliable, and testable software to automate infrastructure management, are an ace troubleshooter, and are deeply technical, then this is the role for you!

We are looking for a talented, passionate PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER for Container Platform to join our cloud engineering team in and evolve our elastic, large scale, high-performance computing environment. You will be part of a team that has been tasked with building the next generation, highly available, global scale, multi-cloud PaaS platform with open source technologies to enable and accelerate Snowflake's rapid growth. You will get to be a technology thought leader, evangelize new, cutting edge technologies and solve complex problems. 

• Contribute to the team charter to build and operate a highly scalable and resilient Infrastructure and platform services that include but not limited to VM, Container and Serverless Platforms.
• Research and implement solutions to build a highly reliable and scalable Kubernetes platform.
• Evangelize and drive adoption of the new platform to meet business goals. 
• Introduce tools to facilitate greater automation and operability of platform services.
• Participate in on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services

OUR IDEAL SENIOR CONTAINER PLATFORM ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• BS/CS, MS/CS or equivalent.
• 15+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting reliable large-scale user-facing systems in production.
• At least 5+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• At least 5+ years experience in Kubernetes. Experience with Amazon EKS, Azure AKS or Google GKE highly desired.
• Strong coding skills in Golang, Python, C++ or Java. 
• Experience with Cloud computing toolsets - Pulumi, Terraform, Vault etc. 
• Firm grasp of IP networking, load balancing, DNS.
• Good knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, cloud computing.
• Tremendous attention to details and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Solid interpersonal skills conducive to a team environment.
• Able to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
• Self-driven & motivated, with a strong work ethic and a passion for problem solving.
• Experience and knowledge of Git, JIRA, and Jenkins a plus.

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ROLE:

• The position may require access to U.S. export-controlled technologies, technical data, or sensitive government data.
• Employment with Snowflake is contingent on Snowflake verifying that you: (i) may legally access U.S. export-controlled technologies, technical data, or sensitive government data; or (ii) are eligible to obtain, in a timely manner, any necessary license or other authorization(s) from the U.S. Government to allow access to U.S. export-controlled technology, technical data, or sensitive government data.