Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake operates at the far end of the SaaS scale curve, where infrastructure becomes a core product capability rather than a supporting function. With multi cloud deployment and workloads measured in billions of queries, this Cloud Infrastructure Engineer remit sits in the layer that makes a data platform dependable for customers who expect always on performance and predictable behavior across regions.
For a SaaS career, this kind of platform engineering work builds durable leverage. It develops fluency in reliability engineering, service level thinking, and automation that reduces toil for many downstream product teams. The emphasis on containerization, infrastructure as code, and protecting the platform from cloud provider issues maps closely to the problems that recur in modern SaaS, from cost and performance tradeoffs to safe rollout of large scale changes.
This role tends to suit engineers who like turning operational complexity into software and who enjoy owning systems over time, not just shipping features. It is a strong match for professionals who want to deepen cloud fundamentals while also exercising technical leadership through tooling, standards, and mentorship within an infrastructure organization.
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.
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 Cloud Infrastructure Engineering teams. If you are passionate about solving complex infrastructure challenges by using software engineering expertise, this opportunity may be for you. Our Cloud 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 Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Teams aim to optimize and evolve our infrastructure's reliability, availability, serviceability, performance, and cost efficiency.
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER - CLOUD 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.
Provide technical leadership 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.
Mentor and support more junior team members, leading by example with excellent code quality, documentation, and software development best practices
OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER - CLOUD 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).
Expertise 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
