4 days ago
Base Salary
$236k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and architecture of Snowflake’s CI platform serving thousands of developers, millions of builds, and a large multi-repository codebase.
- Design and implement elastic, performant, and fault-tolerant distributed CI services across cloud providers.
- Define CI platform strategy and partner with product and engineering leadership on quarterly and long-term roadmaps.
- Provide architectural guidance through code reviews, design reviews, and technical standards.
- Resolve systemic challenges involving build performance, resource efficiency, multi-tenant isolation, reliability, and security.
- Mentor engineers and raise technical judgment, design quality, and engineering craftsmanship across the organization.
- Evaluate emerging CI/CD technologies and contribute to cross-team developer productivity initiatives.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience designing and building distributed systems at scale.
- Track record of technical leadership, system architecture ownership, design decision-making, and raising the technical bar for teams or organizations.
- Deep experience building, scaling, or significantly evolving enterprise Continuous Integration infrastructure for cloud-based distributed systems.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and systems design.
- Fluency in at least one of Java, C++, Python, or Go, with versatility across languages and systems.
- Ability to prioritize strategically, translate strategy into executable technical plans, mentor engineers, and influence technical decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs to engineering and leadership audiences.
- Preferred experience with data systems or distributed-systems internals; Jenkins, Bazel, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or other CI/CD suites; multi-tenant systems; roadmap and technical-document authorship; build-system optimization; and developer tooling or platform engineering organizations.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $236,000–$354,000, with additional bonus and equity eligibility; compensation figures are excluded from the benefits summary here.
- Equity in the form of RSUs, plus medical, dental, vision, 401(k), ESPP, generous paid time off, and other benefits.
- The role offers technical autonomy, ownership of critical infrastructure, and work at the scale of millions of builds and thousands of developers.
About Snowflake
Snowflake builds a cloud-native data platform used by enterprises to store, integrate, share, and analyze data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its core products span data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and governed data sharing, sold via consumption-based subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and publicly traded on the NYSE (SNOW) following a 2020 IPO, Snowflake supports analytics and data application workloads across industries.