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Staff Software Engineer — Cortex Code Platform

at Snowflake

📍 US-CA-Menlo Park Unknown Posted March 26, 2026
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Position Details

Type Not Specified
Experience lead
Exp. Years 8+ years
Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Category Cloud & Infrastructure

About this role

This role involves designing and maintaining scalable, secure backend infrastructure for enterprise data systems, with a focus on container orchestration and distributed data management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design scalable backend services
  • Implement container orchestration
  • Ensure security and threat mitigation
  • Mentor engineering teams
  • Optimize distributed data systems

Technical Overview

Technical environment includes Go, Python, Kubernetes, distributed data systems, container infrastructure, and security practices, aimed at operational excellence at scale.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior platform engineer with 8+ years of experience in distributed systems, proficient in Go and Python, with expertise in container orchestration, security, and cloud-native infrastructure. They possess strong leadership and mentorship skills.

Must-Have Skills

Shipping distributed systems / backend platform softwareExperience with container orchestration (Kubernetes)Distributed data systemsSecurity fundamentals for cloud servicesProficiency in Go and/or Python

Nice-to-Have Skills

AI securityThreat modelingSecrets managementContainer infrastructureDistributed data systemsQueues/streamingBackpressureObservability

Tools & Platforms

GoTypeScriptPythonKubernetes

Required Skills

GoPythondistributed systemscontainer orchestrationKubernetescloud-nativesecuritythreat modelingsecrets managementdata streaming

Hard Skills

GoTypeScriptPythondistributed systemscontainer orchestrationKubernetescloud-nativesecuritythreat modelingsecrets managementcontainer infrastructuredistributed data systemsqueuesstreamingcachingbackpressureobservability

Soft Skills

leadershipmentorshipdesigncross-team collaborationproblem-solving

Industry & Role

Industry SaaS
Job Function Backend infrastructure design and security for enterprise data systems
Role Subtype Platform Engineer
Tech Domains Go, Python, Kubernetes, distributed data systems, cloud-native

Keywords for Your Resume

distributed systemsbackend platformcontainer orchestrationkubernetescloud-nativesecuritythreat modelingsecrets managementdistributed data systemsqueuesstreamingcachingbackpressureobservabilityGoPythoncloud securitycontainer infrastructureAI securityKubernetes

Deal Breakers

Less than 8 years of experience in backend or distributed systems, No experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration, Lack of security fundamentals for cloud services, Proficiency only in non-relevant programming languages

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