Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake operates a large-scale, multi-cloud SaaS platform where networking and edge traffic are not supporting concerns but core product infrastructure. A Software Engineer on the Traffic and Networking team sits close to the systems that every customer request depends on, spanning DNS, TLS termination, load balancing, CDNs, and L4 and L7 routing. In the SaaS ecosystem, roles like this are central to delivering reliable, secure service at global scale.
For a long-term SaaS engineering career, this kind of work builds durable platform instincts: designing for high availability, making performance and reliability trade-offs, and automating operations across many regions and cloud providers. The emphasis on incident response, post-mortems, and production ownership reflects how mature SaaS organisations run services continuously, and that experience transfers well to other cloud-native companies.
This role tends to suit engineers who prefer infrastructure-adjacent software problems over feature UI work, and who enjoy collaborating across teams to deliver foundational capabilities. It also signals a fit for professionals comfortable with operational accountability, including on-call participation, and motivated by improving systems that must stay dependable under sustained growth in throughput and complexity.
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 have more than 3.9 billion queries and more than 515 million data workloads that run each day. Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
The Snowflake Engineering team is a global team of high performing engineers focused on building best in class tooling, automation, and a scalable infrastructure platform to run the Snowflake service. The team’s focus areas include Snowflake's global scale multi-cloud infrastructure, core platform services, edge traffic delivery, and reliability engineering. The team also automates the deployment of the Snowflake production service across dozens of regions and major cloud providers.
We are looking for talented and passionate Software Engineers to join our Traffic & Networking team in Dublin, Ireland. These systems deal with DNS management, TLS termination, load balancing, CDNs, L4 and L7 networking, and traffic routing. Every incoming request into Snowflake flows through or relies on these systems. The critical nature of these services demands a very high level of reliability.
As more and more customers globally start using Snowflake in a variety of ways, the Edge will need to support more features and sustain higher throughput while remaining reliable. We have been on a significant growth journey at Snowflake, with the volumes of data constantly accelerating, and as such there will be substantial opportunities to drive reliability, security, and performance improvements at the Traffic & Edge layer. Further, Snowflake’s focus on building a truly multi-cloud service drives us to create elegant abstractions to enable rapid iteration and product delivery. Interested in joining us to solve these complex platform engineering challenges?
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Design, lead or own significant projects with an impact felt far beyond your team.
Contribute to the design and operation of our highly reliable, secure, scalable, and performant infrastructure
Develop the software to grow our fleet of services and deployments
Participate in our on-call rotation and ensure uptime of services
Use your experience and problem solving skills to help investigate and fix production issues, and drive blameless incident post-mortems to document learnings and prevent recurrences
Execute complex technical projects while partnering with a wide variety of teams within the company
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE MOST OF THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:
BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or related major, or equivalent experience.
2-5 years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
A track record of planning, running and delivering cross team projects
Experience with at least one advanced programming language such as C++, Java, Go, Python
Hands on experience with one of more public cloud providers such as AWS/Azure/GCP
Experience with automating operations (e.g., software deployments, config changes) at scale
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet)
We value a strong growth mindset at Snowflake, so we would love to hear from you even if you don’t meet all the requirements above!
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
