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Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Observe by Snowflake

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-CA-Menlo Park$160k - $210kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior Infrastructure Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure for the Observe by Snowflake platform, driving architectural decisions, and elevating operational excellence. Role includes migrating and integrating infrastructure with Snowflake platforms, advancing GitOps, and mentoring newer engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, build, and operation of scalable, secure AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure across shared and dedicated customer environments, supporting a high-scale observability platform.
  • Help integrate Observe's infrastructure into Snowflake's platforms, including CI, source control, and container platform migrations, bridging startup-era systems with enterprise-grade standards.
  • Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and platform automation, moving our delivery pipeline toward GitOps and independent, safe service deployments.
  • Partner with the Security team to improve access controls, secrets management, and the security posture of production environments, enabling other teams to move fast without compromising security or maintainability.
  • Design and implement infrastructure patterns that ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and operational resilience.
  • Participate in the infrastructure on-call rotation and play a key role in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements that drive systemic reliability enhancements.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product and Engineering teams to ensure infrastructure strategy supports long-term platform evolution.
  • Take ownership of ambiguous projects from scoping through delivery, and help onboard and mentor newer engineers on a growing team through design and code reviews.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or related roles.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operating production systems at scale, with deep ownership of reliability and operational excellence.
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes, including architectural decision-making and operational tuning.
  • Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) and GitOps tooling (ArgoCD or similar), with a focus on scalable system design.
  • Experience with least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and securing production access.
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with a track record of building automation and infrastructure systems.
  • Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives and influencing infrastructure best practices.
  • Ability to balance immediate operational demands with long-term architectural vision.
  • Comfortable saying no or 'not yet' with a clear rationale, and prioritizing ruthlessly when inbound demand exceeds capacity.
  • Track record of thoughtfully applying AI tooling to infrastructure automation while keeping production changes safe and reviewable.

Skills

Required:AWS and Kubernetes architecture and operationsInfrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)GitOps tooling (ArgoCD or similar)Security and identity (least-privilege IAM, secrets management)Programming (Go, Python, or similar)Incident response and post-incident analysis
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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