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Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Provisioning Service

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-WA-Bellevue$200k - $287.5kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior distributed systems engineer role focusing on designing and implementing scalable, fault-tolerant services that operate across multiple cloud providers, with leadership responsibilities and close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
  • Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our services layer.
  • Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams.
  • Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
  • 2+ years experience in leading a group of junior and senior engineers.
  • Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring.
  • Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
  • Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
  • Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ or Java preferred.
  • Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
  • BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD preferred.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designLeadership / team managementC++ or JavaOperating systems concepts
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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