Snowflake
Staff Software Engineer, Snowpark Container Service
$236K–$339K
US-CA-Menlo Park +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
- Location
- US-CA-Menlo Park
US-WA-Bellevue - Experience
- 10+ years of industry experience.
About the job
Build and lead development of Snowpark Container Service, a scalable managed container compute platform that lets customers run applications alongside their Snowflake data.
What you'll do
- Design and develop product features; lead engineers and set technical direction for critical product areas.
- Manage project delivery across design, coding, reviews, testing, observability, tooling, and on-call support.
- Build and maintain reliable, fault-tolerant Kubernetes-based container platform capabilities, with emphasis on operational readiness, reliability, and performance.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of industry experience building features and capabilities for large-scale systems or infrastructure-level platforms.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and experience building distributed systems.
- Ability to work on-site in the downtown Bellevue office.
Nice to have
- Hands-on coding experience in Java, C++ or Go.
- Experience with Kubernetes, multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP), or multi-tenant systems focused on performance, isolation, and security.
Pay
$236K – $339.2K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Kubernetes, OCI, Java, C++, Go, AWS, Azure, GCP
AI focus
The posting describes an AI-native mindset and using AI as a collaborator, but does not specify AI-related job duties.
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