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Snowflake
5,001 – 10,000 Employees
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Snowflake provides a cloud-based data platform for storing, processing, and analyzing information at scale. Its centralized architecture helps businesses bring data together, run complex queries efficiently, and support diverse workloads as their needs evolve. The company’s platform is relevant to professionals working across cloud computing, data, analytics, consulting, and marketing technology, with opportunities shaped by the teams building and supporting modern data infrastructure.
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Staff Software Engineer, Continuous Integration Systems at Snowflake

Lead architecture and technical direction for Snowflake’s large-scale continuous integration platform supporting its Data Cloud. Shape engineering roadmaps and standards while guiding engineers building distributed systems.

USUnited StatesWAWashington
$236,000 – $354,000 / year
HybridFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredFull-stack EngineerSoftware Engineer
C++CloudDistributed SystemsGoJavaJenkinsPython

Description

  • Define the technical direction and architecture for Snowflake’s continuous integration platform.
  • Design systems that support thousands of developers, millions of builds, and an expanding multi-repository codebase.
  • Lead the design and delivery of elastic, high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed CI services across cloud providers.
  • Work with product managers and engineering leaders to shape quarterly and long-range roadmaps.
  • Review code and designs, and provide architectural guidance.
  • Address build speed, resource use, tenant isolation, reliability, and security challenges.
  • Coach and support engineers across the team and wider organization.
  • Assess and adopt CI/CD technologies, tooling approaches, and industry practices.
  • Coordinate with neighboring Engineering Systems teams and leaders on developer productivity efforts.
  • Build, troubleshoot, and deliver high-quality systems at a rapid pace.
  • Protect confidential information and follow Snowflake’s data security standards.

Requirements

  • At least eight years of industry experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership, including system architecture ownership, design decisions, and raising engineering standards.
  • Extensive experience with enterprise continuous integration for cloud-based distributed systems.
  • Strong commitment to improving developer productivity.
  • Solid computer science foundations in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and system design.
  • Proficiency in Java, C++, Python, or Go.
  • Strategic judgment and the ability to turn strategy into actionable technical plans.
  • Ability to mentor and influence engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and technical coaching.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Experience building data systems or working on distributed systems internals.
  • Hands-on experience operating Jenkins, Bazel, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or another CI/CD suite at scale.
  • Experience designing multi-tenant systems with attention to reliability, performance, isolation, and security.
  • Experience writing roadmaps, technical design documents, project plans, and root cause analyses.
  • Experience optimizing build systems through caching, parallelization, incremental builds, and resource scheduling.
  • Experience in developer tooling or platform engineering organizations.
  • Ability to commute to a local Snowflake office or relocate nearby.
  • Current authorization to work in the country of application.

Benefits

  • Target bonus of 15%.
  • Restricted stock units valued in the stated range of $600,000–$1,800,000.
  • Medical insurance.
  • Dental insurance.
  • Vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Employee stock purchase plan.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Competitive compensation.
  • Equity compensation.

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