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Senior Software Engineer - Capacity

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (US-WA-Bellevue)$200k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focused on Capacity Engineering to design, build, and operate a cross-cloud capacity platform for CPU/GPU provisioning, demand forecasting, and utilization across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the capacity platform that unifies CPU and GPU allocation, procurement, reservation lifecycle, and utilization across all three clouds.
  • Own the canonical capacity data layer: ingest and reconcile demand forecasts, provider supply signals, commitments, and fleet utilization into a single, trustworthy model consumed across the company.
  • Serve as the liaison to Cloud Service Providers managing and integrating vendor relationships into the capacity planning and procurement workflow.
  • Build planning and allocation systems that translate demand into hardware requirements (shape, quantity, region, timing) and surface supply risk early, with real-time visibility into fleet and reservation health.
  • Drive efficiency: instrument utilization across CPU and GPU accelerator workloads, establish price/performance baselines, and build tooling to recover stranded capacity and right-size commitments.
  • Integrate hardware evolution into the platform: evaluate new CPU and GPU generations and their price/performance, and build flexibility that keeps plans aligned to the hardware roadmap.
  • Partner with core services, warehouse, AI/ML, and finance teams to forecast and procure capacity ahead of launches, support AI/ML workloads reliably, and turn insights into procurement and allocation decisions.
  • Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of capacity systems by participating in on-call rotations and incident management.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud providers on compute cluster and cloud services provisioning (CPU and/or GPU fleets).
  • Experience with capacity planning, procurement, resource management, or efficiency work on systems built on large private clouds or public cloud providers.
  • Deep system and architectural analysis experience to identify actionable performance, availability, and efficiency insights across CPU and GPU accelerator fleets.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python, or Java.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a production environment.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
  • BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields.
  • Experience developing or using observability infrastructure such as OpenTelemetry or Prometheus is a plus.
  • Familiarity with accelerator/GPU fleets, hardware price/performance analysis, or Kubernetes-based compute at scale is a plus.
  • Prior background working with Modeling, Forecasting, Cloud Spend Optimization, and LLMs is a plus.

Skills

Required:Cloud compute provisioningCapacity planning and provisioningGo
Nice to have:PythonJavaObservability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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