Snowflake
Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Efficiency
$200K–$288K
US-WA-Bellevue · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale production systems.
- Education
- BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields
About the job
Builds Snowflake’s cloud-efficiency platform and AI tools to make cloud spending observable and attributable, and to identify and implement cost and utilization improvements.
What you'll do
- Develop platform capabilities for resource ownership, usage attribution, utilization measurement, and cost modeling.
- Build AI agents, tools, and automation for monitoring, alerting, and root-cause analysis; improve data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency.
- Collaborate across teams to improve operational visibility and turn cloud-usage insights into operational changes; support reliability through on-call and incident management.
What they ask for
- Experience optimizing costs and efficiency on large private-cloud or public-cloud systems.
- Deep system and architectural analysis skills to identify actionable performance and efficiency insights.
- Proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
- BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields.
Nice to have
- Experience developing or using observability infrastructure such as OpenTelemetry or Prometheus.
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and billing models, or FinOps experience.
Pay
$200K – $287.5K (USD; base salary or total pay not specified)
Tools
Go, Python, Java, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, AWS, Azure, GCP
AI focus
Build AI agents, tools, and automation for system monitoring, alerting, and root-cause analysis; prior experience building AI agents and working with LLMs is sought.
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