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Senior Software Engineer, Snowpark Container Service

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (US-WA-Bellevue), Hybrid (US-CA-Menlo Park)$200k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer for Snowpark Container Service within Snowflake Compute Platform. Build and maintain an elastic, high-scale, cloud-native container compute platform to enable bringing Compute to Data. Lead a team, design features, and drive reliability and performance in an early-stage, fully managed container service.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals.
  • Lead a team of engineers, including mentoring and guiding them, and build technical direction and strategy for large and critical parts of the product surface area.
  • Manage all aspects of the Project, including Design, Coding, Reviews, Testing, Observability, Tooling and On-Call support.
  • Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant software to meet the needs of the largest customers.
  • Ensure operational readiness and maintainability of the service with heavy focus on reliability, availability, debuggability and performance.
  • Design and build Kubernetes based OCI compliant container compute platform features and capabilities that scale and evolve with changing business and customer needs.
  • Snowpark Container Services is still in an early stage of development - it is an amazing opportunity for outsized impact on Snowflake’s growth story.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of industry experience building features and capabilities of large scale systems or infrastructure level platforms.
  • Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills and experience building distributed systems.
  • Hands-on coding experience in Java, C++ or Go is highly desirable.
  • Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems
Nice to have:JavaC++GoKubernetes
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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