Snowflake is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Production Engineering Team. This team is responsible for driving the reliability tools and processes that ensure Snowflake consistently delivers a top-tier experience for its customers. You will champion Service Level Objectives (SLOs), build infrastructure for rapid detection of reliability issues, and deeply engage in system health verification.
What You'll Do
- Improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement.
- Scale systems sustainably by automation; participate in changes that improve reliability and velocity.
- Establish and practice low noise incident response rotations and blameless postmortems to prevent problem recurrence.
- Write and review code. Develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug complex problems on large distributed systems.
- Collaborate with software engineers to establish, maintain, and optimize functional and performance SLOs.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficient in at least one modern programming language, preferably Golang.
- Systematic problem-solving methods and effective communication skills.
Nice to Have
- 6+ years industry experience building and supporting large scale systems in production.
- Experience with modern observability tools and production monitoring practices.
- Experience with containers and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes.
- Experience deploying, managing, and operating scalable and fault tolerant infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with one or more public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Technical Stack
- Golang
- Kubernetes
- AWS, Azure, GCP
Team & Environment
You'll join Snowflake's Production Engineering Team, a group dedicated to operational excellence and learning from every incident. We operate with a culture of being all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration.
Work Mode
This role is open to candidates based locally in the United States.
