Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Observe by Snowflake

The role

You will lead the design, build, and operation of scalable AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure. You will also integrate infrastructure into Snowflake platforms and evolve CI/CD pipelines toward GitOps.

What you will do

• Lead the design, build, and operation of scalable, secure AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure
• Integrate Observe's infrastructure into Snowflake's platforms
• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and platform automation
• Partner with the Security team to improve access controls and secrets management
• Design and implement infrastructure patterns for high availability and resilience
• Participate in the infrastructure on-call rotation and incident response
• Partner cross-functionally with Product and Engineering teams
• Take ownership of ambiguous projects from scoping through delivery
• Onboard and mentor newer engineers through design and code reviews

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or related roles
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating production systems at scale
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, including architectural decision-making and operational tuning
• Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar)
• Hands-on experience with GitOps tooling (ArgoCD or similar)
• Experience with least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and securing production access
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages
• Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives and influencing infrastructure best practices
• Ability to balance immediate operational demands with long-term architectural vision
• Comfortable saying no or not yet with a clear rationale
• Track record of thoughtfully applying AI tooling to infrastructure automation

Nice to have

• Experience leading large migrations (CI systems, version control, deployment platforms)
• Experience with post-acquisition or platform-consolidation work
• Familiarity with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, or monitoring infrastructure
• Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms
• Experience working in high-growth, rapidly evolving engineering environments

About the company

Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built natively on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Observe joined Snowflake through its acquisition in February 2026.