Platform Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will build and operate highly scalable, resilient, and performant infrastructure. You will provide technical leadership on large projects involving cloud platforms, tools, and automation.

What you will do

• Build a deep understanding of Snowflake's infrastructure and services
• Contribute 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

Required qualifications

• 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 Pulu
• 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

About the company

Snowflake customers run more than 3.9 billion queries and 515 million data workloads each day. The company's globally deployed infrastructure spans multiple cloud providers and manages hundreds of thousands of VMs.