Staff Software Engineer – Engineering Systems, Continuous Integration Team

📋 Description

• Own the technical direction and architecture of Snowflake's CI platform — designing systems that
• Lead the design and implementation of distributed CI services that are elastic, performant, and
• Drive the CI platform strategy — partner with product managers and engineering leadership to define
• Set the engineering bar for the team through code reviews, design reviews, and architectural
• Identify and resolve systemic technical challenges — from build performance and resource efficiency
• Mentor and develop engineers on the team — elevate technical judgment, design quality, and

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of industry experience designing and building distributed systems at scale
• A track record of technical leadership — owning system architecture, driving design decisions, and
• Deep experience with enterprise-grade Continuous Integration for cloud-based distributed systems —
• Strong passion for making developers highly productive — you think about developer experience as a
• Excellent CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and systems
• Fluency in Java, C++, Python, or Go — with the versatility to work across languages and systems

🎁 Benefits

• Build infrastructure that thousands of engineers depend on every day — your work directly
• Operate at serious scale — millions of builds, thousands of developers, a multi-cloud codebase
• Technical depth and autonomy — you'll own architecture decisions on critical infrastructure with
• Work with exceptional engineers — the ES team includes industry experts in distributed systems
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity in one of the most important enterprise technology