Software Engineer — Engineering Systems, Continuous Integration

Snowflake•Bellevue, WA

1d•$160,000 - $230,000

About The Position

Snowflake’s Engineering Systems organization builds the tools, infrastructure, and platforms that help engineers develop, test, and deliver high-quality software efficiently. The Continuous Integration team builds and operates the systems that power builds, tests, validation, and developer workflows across Snowflake’s engineering organization. This Software Engineer will help build reliable, scalable CI services that support thousands of engineers and a rapidly growing multi-cloud codebase. The role involves developing distributed systems, CI services, APIs, tooling, and automation that improve build reliability, test execution, developer productivity, and software delivery. The engineer will contribute to scalable infrastructure across cloud environments, investigate and resolve operational issues, collaborate with teams across Snowflake, and participate in design, code review, testing, and production support. The role also contributes to CI practices and operational processes as the organization grows. The ideal candidate has at least three years of software engineering experience building production systems, strong computer science fundamentals, and experience designing reliable software services. Snowflake emphasizes ownership, collaboration, thoughtful engineering, continuous improvement, and an experimental mindset, including using AI as a collaborator to improve how work gets done.

Requirements

At least 3 years of software engineering experience building production systems.
Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Experience designing and implementing reliable software services.
Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, or Go.
Familiarity with cloud-based development environments and distributed applications.
Experience testing, debugging, monitoring, and operating production systems.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work through ambiguous technical challenges.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to collaborate with engineers, product partners, and teams across the organization.
Strong sense of ownership and commitment to delivering high-quality software.

Nice To Haves

Experience with continuous integration, continuous delivery, or developer productivity systems.
Familiarity with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Bazel, or similar CI/CD platforms.
Experience with build systems, test orchestration, distributed job scheduling, or resource management.
Knowledge of multi-tenant systems, reliability engineering, performance optimization, or security isolation.
Experience with Kubernetes, containers, or public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience supporting large-scale repositories, build pipelines, or engineering platforms.
Familiarity with observability tools and production metrics.
Experience contributing to technical design documents, postmortems, or root-cause analyses.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and operate distributed systems that power Snowflake’s continuous integration platform.
Build services and tooling that improve build reliability, test execution, developer productivity, and software delivery velocity.
Contribute to the architecture and implementation of scalable CI infrastructure across cloud environments.
Develop reliable APIs, services, and automation using languages such as Java, C++, Python, or Go.
Investigate and resolve issues involving build failures, test infrastructure, performance, reliability, and developer workflows.
Partner with engineers across Snowflake to understand CI needs and deliver simple, scalable, easy-to-operate solutions.
Participate in design reviews, code reviews, testing, and production support.
Improve system performance, reliability, security, and maintainability using strong engineering judgment.
Help evolve CI practices, tooling, and operational processes as Snowflake grows.
Contribute to an inclusive engineering culture through collaboration, documentation, and knowledge sharing.