Software Engineer – Engineering Systems Continuous Integration Team

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. We’re hiring a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to help us build a world class developer platform to fuel the Snowflake Data Cloud. As an engineer in the Continuous Integration team within ES (Engineering Systems), you will play a central role in setting the technical standard for and delivering the CI service that powers our repositories. Together with industry-wide experts in distributed systems, cross-cloud development and engineering excellence, you will evolve our developer infrastructure and tooling to be elastic, large-scale, and highly performant with simplicity at its core. As a software engineer in the CI team in ES, you will help Snowflake realize its mission and vision of becoming the premier Data Cloud by accelerating the delivery of our high quality software to production. You will be a key stakeholder in driving clarity on our strategy and partner with product managers to chart the quarterly and long-term roadmaps for the team. You will ensure that the team is executing towards serving the current needs of its customers, while also ensuring that we stay ahead of technological trends and future demands. OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE: - Strong passion for making developers highly productive. - 5+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems. - A track record of technical leadership - Experience working on enterprise-grade Continuous Integration for Cloud-based distributed systems. - Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. - Fluency in Java, C++, Python or Go. - Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers. - A strategic mindset and strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact. - Excellent interpersonal communication skills. - Outstanding written and oral English language skills. BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: - Developing data or distributed systems internals. - Experience with Jenkins, ArgoCD or other CI-related suites. - Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation and security. - Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs. 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 information secure and confidential. 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 http://careers.snowflake.com