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Staff Software Engineer, Snowpark Container Service

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (US-CA-Menlo Park), Hybrid (US-WA-Bellevue)$236k - $339.2kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer for Snowpark Container Service in Snowflake Compute Platform. Build an elastic, high-scale, cloud-native compute platform to enable bringing Compute to Data. Fully managed container service with Snowflake security and operational best practices. Early-stage opportunity with high impact on Snowflake’s growth.

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.

Qualifications

  • 10+ 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++Go

Benefits

  • For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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