Software Engineer

Snowflake • Bellevue, WA

4d • $160,000 - $230,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Snowflake is seeking a Software Engineer for Snowpark Container Services, part of its Snowflake Compute Platform. The role focuses on building an elastic, high-scale, high-performance, cloud-native compute platform that makes bringing compute to data simple. Snowpark Container Services is a fully managed container offering that lets customers deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without moving data out of Snowflake, with Snowflake security, configuration, and operational best practices built in. The engineer will join a fast-moving team working on a service that is in an early stage of development and offers an opportunity to contribute to Snowflake’s growth.

The position involves designing and developing product features, working with customer requirements and business goals, and building reliable, fault-tolerant software for large customers. It also includes providing technical leadership by mentoring and guiding engineers and shaping direction for significant parts of the product. The engineer manages projects across design, coding, reviews, testing, observability, tooling, and on-call support, while ensuring service readiness, maintainability, reliability, availability, debuggability, and performance. The work includes designing and building Kubernetes-based, OCI-compliant container compute platform capabilities that can scale and evolve with customer and business needs. The role requires working on-site in Snowflake’s downtown Bellevue office.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of industry experience building features and capabilities for large-scale systems or infrastructure-level platforms.
• Strong fundamental computer science skills and experience building distributed systems.
• Ability to work on-site in the downtown Bellevue office.
• Excitement to learn new things and a passion for learning and growth.
• Team-oriented approach, including transparency, knowledge sharing, and helping colleagues.
• Ability to work across functions and teams.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on coding experience in Java, C++, or Go is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features based on customer requirements and business goals.
• Lead, mentor, and guide a team of engineers, and build technical direction and strategy for large and critical parts of the product.
• Manage projects across design, coding, reviews, testing, observability, tooling, and on-call support.
• Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant software for the needs of large customers.
• Ensure the service is operationally ready and maintainable, with a focus on reliability, availability, debuggability, and performance.
• Design and build Kubernetes-based, OCI-compliant container compute platform features and capabilities that scale and evolve with business and customer needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed