Senior Software Engineer (Snowpark Container Service)

• At Snowflake, your role isn’t just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done
• We are looking for a talented and passionate Senior Software Engineer for our Snowpark Container Service, part of our Snowflake Compute Platform - to build our elastic, high-scale, high-performance, cloud native compute platform to enable bringing Compute to Data effortless and simple
• Snowpark Container Services is a fully managed container offering that helps our customers easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without having to move data out of Snowflake
• As a fully managed service, it comes with Snowflake security, configuration, and operational best practices built in
• You will be part of this highly productive, fast moving, and growing team that is critical to realizing Snowflake’s Data Cloud Mission
• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans
• Health savings accounts
• Robust retirement plans
• Life and disability insurance
• Weekly online lunch and learns
• Virtual workout classes
• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
• On-demand mental health and wellness programs
• Fertility benefits and family planning resources
• Generous time-off and various leave plans
• Onsite and Remote Work
• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Quarterly bonus or commission program- At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise
• We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results
• You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact
• To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work
• Hands-on coding experience in Java, C++ or Go is highly desirable
• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills and experience building distributed systems
• 7+ years of industry experience building features and capabilities of large scale systems or infrastructure level platforms
• Work across functions and across teams - we don’t only work on code that we own, we work with other parts of Snowflake every day
• Excitement to learn new things - passion to learn and grow are keys to success on this team
• Be a team player - Our team culture is a priority. Transparency, knowledge sharing, fun events, and helping each other are all part of our work environment
• Ability to work on-site in our downtown Bellevue office
• Experience building products or services with Kubernetes
• Designing and implementing products and features with multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Implementing multi-tenant systems with focus on performance, isolation and security