Senior Software Engineer - Production Control Plane

Snowflake • Menlo Park, CA

6h

About The Position

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.
We are hiring talented Senior Software Engineers for our Production Control Plane team.
The team is responsible for seamless, automated, and scalable cloud infrastructure deployment, provisioning, and lifecycle management. If you are passionate about building cloud platforms this opportunity may be for you.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP) or platform engineering.
• Ownership mindset, self-direction, and a passion for solving complex problems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Proficiency in one or more languages: Go, Java, Python, or C++.
• Daily operational experience with AI-driven software development (Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent).
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code frameworks (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Expertise in CI/CD systems (Github Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Strong distributed-systems troubleshooting and incident resolution skills.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency with Kubernetes, especially on the platform side.

Responsibilities

• Build a deep understanding of Snowflake’s infrastructure and services.
• Apply both infrastructure and software engineering to deliver a highly scalable, resilient, and performant platform.
• Provide technical leadership on large, complex projects that span infrastructure, platforms, tools, and automation in the cloud.
• Champion platform adoption to meet business goals across partner teams.
• Lead and mentor more junior engineers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees