Snowflake
Staff Software Engineer — Engineering Systems, Continuous Integration
$236K–$407K
US-WA-Bellevue · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of industry experience designing and building production software systems.
About the job
Own the technical direction and operation of large-scale continuous integration infrastructure that supports builds, tests, validation, and developer workflows across Snowflake.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate distributed CI systems; improve build reliability, test execution, developer productivity, and release velocity.
- Set technical direction and roadmaps, make architectural decisions, and lead complex cross-team projects.
- Mentor engineers and improve reliability through design standards, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of industry experience designing and building production software systems.
- Technical leadership across complex, multi-team engineering initiatives.
- Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
- Experience building or significantly evolving enterprise-grade Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with CI/CD and build systems such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bazel, or ArgoCD.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, or public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Pay
$236,000–$354,000 USD (base salary); $271,400–$407,100 USD (total target compensation); $236K – $339.2K (compensation; pay type and currency not stated)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Go, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bazel, ArgoCD
AI focus
The posting describes AI as a high-trust collaborator and encourages experimenting with emerging capabilities, but does not specify AI engineering duties for this role.
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