Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Provisioning Service

US-WA-Bellevue · 2+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026

At a glance

As a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer at Snowflake, you will shape the vision, architecture, and approach for core services within the Cloud Provisioning team.
The role involves creating an abstraction layer between cloud providers and the rest of Snowflake, optimizing for unique needs while balancing usability, performance, and cost.

Solve real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
Design and implement scalable distributed systems for the services layer.
Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
Lead cross-functional initiatives, and collaborate with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams.
Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet commitments to customers regarding availability and performance.

7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
2+ years experience in leading a group of junior and senior engineers.
Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring.
Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
Experience with cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
BS in Computer Science.