Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake operates as a large-scale SaaS platform where infrastructure is inseparable from product delivery. A Platform Infrastructure Engineering role here sits at the intersection of cloud primitives and developer enablement, shaping how internal teams consume compute, networking, and container foundations. The listing signals a multi-cloud, globally deployed environment—an increasingly common pattern among mature SaaS platforms that need resilience beyond a single provider.
For a SaaS career, this kind of platform work builds durable instincts around reliability and operability as product features. Experience designing automation, defining base OS/container layers, and managing high-stakes infrastructure change translates directly to other subscription businesses where uptime, SLOs, and cost efficiency drive retention and margins. The emphasis on tooling and simplification also maps to the broader industry trend toward internal platforms and paved roads for engineering teams.
This role tends to fit engineers who prefer systems-level ownership over feature work, and who enjoy turning ambiguous infrastructure constraints into repeatable software. It also suits professionals ready to balance building new capabilities with operating mission-critical services, collaborating across teams, and raising the bar on engineering practices through documentation and mentorship.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
Snowflake customers run more than 3.9 billion queries and 515 million data workloads each day. To support this workload, our globally deployed infrastructure spans multiple cloud providers and manages hundreds of thousands of VMs. Join the Snowflake team to build the Data Cloud Platform at an exceptional scale.
We are hiring talented Software Engineers for our Platform Infrastructure Engineering teams. If you are passionate about solving complex infrastructure challenges by using software engineering expertise, this opportunity may be for you. Our Platform Infrastructure Engineering Teams are focused on things like:
Building services that improve the reliability of Snowflake by protecting us from the cloud providers issues.
Enabling Snowflake services to operate globally across multiple cloud providers.
Managing complicated infrastructure changes at the scale a few companies can match.
Keeping the SLOs of our infrastructure and services at a very high bar.
Defining the OS and containerization layer for all of Snowflake’s services.
All Platform Infrastructure Engineering Teams aim to optimize and evolve our infrastructure's reliability, availability, serviceability, performance, and cost efficiency.
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER - PLATFORM INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Will build a deep understanding of Snowflake’s infrastructure and services.
Demonstrate both infrastructure and software engineering expertise by contributing to the team charter to build and operate highly scalable, resilient, and performant infrastructure.
Work on large and complex projects that build infrastructure, platforms, tools, and automation in the cloud.
Evangelize and drive adoption of the Platform to meet business goals.
Support junior team members, contribute with excellent code quality, documentation, and software development best practices.
OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - PLATFORM INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING AT SNOWFLAKE, WILL HAVE:
BS/CS, MS/CS, or equivalent.
At least 2+ years experience in a platform or cloud team building spent on supporting mission-critical services and infrastructure in a SaaS environment.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, coding skills, and knowledge of software development best practices.
At least 1+ years in cloud computing (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Fluent in one or more languages (Golang, Java, Python, C).
Proficiency in at least one of the following areas: container platforms, automation, networking, operating systems, site reliability, config management, and infrastructure as code solutions such as Pulumi and Terraform.
Tremendous attention to detail and ability to build reliable and scalable software systems.
Effective communication and collaboration skills.
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.
A strong work ethic, ability to self-manage and drive project success, and a passion for problem-solving.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
