Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of large, complex platform initiatives spanning cluster lifecycle management, multi-cloud automation, and internal developer tooling
• Identify and drive cross-team technical improvements across the platform, from architecture through adoption
• Make and defend architectural trade-offs grounded in reliability, scalability, and operational reality
• Act as a technical anchor for the team, developing expertise in others and raising engineering standards
• Treat internal engineers as primary customers to improve their velocity and platform reliability

Requirements

• Significant experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production
• Experience owning Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems in production at scale
• Proficiency in Go or a comparable systems language
• Experience operating across multiple clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GPU infrastructure or AI/ML training workloads at scale
• Open source contributions to Kubernetes or related ecosystem projects

About the Company

Snowflake is building the foundational container platform that runs production, AI/ML, and CI workloads across multiple clouds, managing hundreds of large Kubernetes clusters.