Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role sits in the part of SaaS that most product teams depend on but rarely see: the internal platform and container layer that keeps a large, multi-cloud service operable at scale. Snowflake’s Data Cloud footprint, with globally deployed infrastructure and very high query volumes, makes container platform decisions directly tied to uptime, performance, and predictable operations across cloud providers.
For a SaaS career, the value comes from working on problems that recur across mature subscription businesses: standardising how services run, reducing operational toil through automation, and building guardrails that prevent provider-level incidents from cascading. Experience shaping SLO-driven infrastructure, evolving OS and containerisation standards, and improving serviceability tends to transfer well to other platform, SRE, and infrastructure engineering tracks across SaaS companies.
This role is best suited to engineers who prefer foundational work over feature delivery and who enjoy turning ambiguous reliability and scalability goals into concrete tooling and systems. It aligns with professionals who want hands-on responsibility for production platforms, can collaborate across development teams, and are motivated by careful engineering, documentation, and long-horizon improvements to how software is shipped and operated.
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?
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
