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Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Provisioning Service

at Snowflake

📍 US-WA-Bellevue Unknown Posted March 07, 2026
Type Not Specified
Experience senior
Exp. Years 7+ years
Education Not specified
Category Software Engineering

Snowflake is hiring a senior distributed systems engineer to develop and support large-scale, fault-tolerant services across multiple cloud providers. The role involves designing scalable infrastructure and ensuring operational excellence.

  • Design scalable distributed systems
  • Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives
  • Ensure operational readiness
  • Support large-scale fault-tolerant services

The role focuses on building distributed control planes, optimizing performance, and supporting high availability systems using cloud infrastructure, networking, and operating systems expertise.

The ideal candidate is a senior distributed systems engineer with over 7 years of experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant services. They possess strong knowledge of operating systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure, and have led cross-functional teams to support large-scale, high-availability systems.

7+ years industry experienceExperience designing large-scale distributed systemsSupport for fault-tolerant servicesLeadership experience in engineering teamsKnowledge of operating systemsnetworkingstorage
Experience with control planesExperience with cloud providersPerformance tuningOperational readiness
Cloud providers (AWSAzureGoogle Cloud)Distributed systems toolsMonitoring toolsNetworking tools
Distributed SystemsFault ToleranceHigh AvailabilityScalabilityControl PlanesNetworkingOperating SystemsMulti-threadingMemory ManagementPerformance Optimization
Distributed SystemsFault ToleranceHigh AvailabilityScalabilityControl PlanesNetworkingOperating SystemsMulti-threadingMemory ManagementPerformance Optimization
Analytical thinkingLeadershipCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunication
Industry Technology / SaaS / Cloud & Infrastructure
Job Function Design and support large-scale distributed fault-tolerant systems
Distributed SystemsFault ToleranceHigh AvailabilityScalabilityControl PlanesNetworkingOperating SystemsMulti-threadingMemory ManagementPerformance OptimizationCloud ProvidersSupport large-scale systemsOperational readiness

Less than 7 years of experience in distributed systems, No experience with large-scale fault-tolerant services, Lack of leadership experience, Inability to support multi-cloud environments

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