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Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Efficiency

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-WA-Bellevue$200k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focused on building a cloud efficiency platform, AI-enabled tools, and observability improvements to optimize Snowflake’s cloud spend and utilization at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable platform for resource ownership registry, usage attribution, utilization measurement, and cost modeling.
  • Build AI agents, tools and automation to enhance system monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.
  • Improve and optimize data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency for cloud utilization, cost and efficiency data at scale.
  • Collaborate with teams across Snowflake to understand attribution and observability needs and implement solutions that improve operational visibility.
  • Contribute to open-source and industry best practices in monitoring and distributed systems monitoring.
  • Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of team-managed platforms by participating in on-call rotations and incident management.
  • Partner with Finance, Product and Engineering teams to turn usage, cost and utilization insights into landed operational change.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
  • Experience with cost optimization and efficiency work on systems built on large private clouds or public cloud providers
  • Deep system and architectural analysis experience to identify actionable performance and efficiency insights
  • History of delivering large cross functional projects with measurable impact
  • 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 ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
  • BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields
  • Prior background building AI agents and working with LLMs

Skills

Required:GoPythonCost optimization / FinOps
Nice to have:JavaObservability tooling (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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