Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Efficiency

The role

The Cloud Efficiency team builds a unified, self-serve cloud efficiency platform with AI skills and agents. You will design and maintain scalable platforms for resource ownership, usage attribution, and cost modeling.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable platform for resource ownership registry, usage attribution, utilization measurement, and cost modeling.
• Build AI agents, tools and automation to enhance system monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.
• Improve and optimize data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency for cloud utilization, cost and efficiency data at scale.
• Collaborate with teams across Snowflake to understand attribution and observability needs.
• Contribute to open-source and industry best practices in monitoring and distributed systems monitoring.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of team-managed platforms by participating in on-call rotations and incident management.
• Partner with Finance, Product and Engineering teams to turn usage, cost and utilization insights into landed operational change.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
• Experience with cost optimization and efficiency work on systems built on large private clouds or public cloud providers
• Deep system and architectural analysis experience to identify actionable performance and efficiency insights
• History of delivering large cross functional projects with measurable impact
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python or Java.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a production environment.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.
• BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields
• Prior background building AI agents and working with LLMs

Nice to have

• Experience developing or using observability infrastructure such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus etc
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and its billing models — AWS, Azure, or GCP: compute instance families, storage tiers, networking and data-transfer charges, reserved vs. on-demand, and how b
• FinOps experience: cost attribution, chargeback, showback, or unit-economics programs.

About the company

Snowflake runs large scale cloud infrastructure to deliver its own service. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.