Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at the intersection of core SaaS platform engineering and regulated deployment, a combination that is increasingly relevant as enterprise cloud products expand into public sector and other high-assurance environments. The work described centers on making a large-scale data platform operable under strict constraints such as compliance, auditability, data residency, and in some cases air-gapped operations, while still maintaining the expectations users bring to modern cloud software.
From a SaaS career perspective, the position builds durable expertise in operating and evolving distributed systems that support a multi-tenant product at scale. Experience spanning Kubernetes-based infrastructure, cloud automation, delivery pipelines, and SLO-driven reliability maps directly to senior paths in platform engineering, SRE, and infrastructure-focused product teams across SaaS. The customer-facing problem solving also signals exposure to real-world operational requirements that shape roadmap and architecture decisions.
This role tends to fit engineers who enjoy owning ambiguous infrastructure problems end to end, from design through production readiness, and who value rigor in security and governance. It also suits professionals comfortable collaborating across teams and translating compliance constraints into practical engineering systems, particularly in environments with clearance and screening considerations.
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
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Running Snowflake in public sectors in different countries and regions, even in different industry verticals, requires us to build a compliant, secure, and auditable infrastructure. Many key design decisions are deeply rooted in the Snowflake product architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading several key areas and collaborating with various engineering groups in addition to the Public Sector team. To be successful in the area, you will need to have (and continue to build) a broad and in-depth knowledge base on cloud infrastructure, privacy, and governance, compliance controls, data security and data residency in various aspects of Snowflake.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Design, implement and maintain scalable distributed systems for our cloud automation platform that include cloud control plane, Kubernetes container platform and traffic and networking.
Work directly with customers to quickly understand their critical problems and design and implement solutions.
Deploy and maintain availability of cloud compute servers and Kubernetes clusters that power the Snowflake platform in sensitive (sometimes air-gapped) production environments using automation.
Implement software delivery pipelines that support continuous delivery and automatic compliance in sensitive runtime environments.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding security, reliability, availability, and performance.
Collaborate closely with product teams on requirements & SLOs for deploying software into air-gapped environments.
Identify, troubleshoot, and solve network & systems issues.
Use AI-driven tooling to automate operational tasks.
OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
7+ years of industry experience designing and supporting large-scale distributed systems in production, with recent experience in deploying at public sector customers
In-depth experience with container orchestration, cloud infrastructure and IaC tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
In-depth development skills in Java, C++, Golang or Python
Experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
Experience with database systems and database internals preferred
Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field
Requirements:
Security Clearance
Required: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
Condition: Must be willing and able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Polygraph.
Verification: Proof of clearance is required prior to an offer of employment.
Citizenship & Screening
U.S. Citizenship: Required due to federal law and government contract restrictions; verification via valid passport or approved documentation is mandatory.
Compliance: Candidates must meet all applicable customer and government security screening requirements.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer
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.
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