Software Engineer – Engineering Systems Continuous Integration Team

About the Role

We’re hiring a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to help us build a world class developer platform to fuel the Snowflake Data Cloud. As an engineer in the Continuous Integration team within ES (Engineering Systems), you will play a central role in setting the technical standard for and delivering the CI service that powers our repositories. Together with industry-wide experts in distributed systems, cross-cloud development and engineering excellence, you will evolve our developer infrastructure and tooling to be elastic, large-scale, and highly performant with simplicity at its core.

What You Will Do

• Help Snowflake realize its mission and vision of becoming the premier Data Cloud by accelerating the delivery of high quality software to production.
• Be a key stakeholder in driving clarity on our strategy and partner with product managers to chart the quarterly and long-term roadmaps for the team.
• Ensure the team is executing towards serving the current needs of its customers, while also ensuring we stay ahead of technological trends and future demands.

Ideal Qualifications

• Strong passion for making developers highly productive.
• 5+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
• A track record of technical leadership.
• Experience working on enterprise-grade Continuous Integration for Cloud-based distributed systems.
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Fluency in Java, C++, Python or Go.
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers.
• A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Outstanding written and oral English language skills.

Bonus Points

• Developing data or distributed systems internals.
• Experience with Jenkins, ArgoCD or other CI-related suites.
• Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security.
• Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs.