Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform
Snowflake · Menlo Park, CA · Engineering
About this role
Snowflake is hiring a staff-level Platform Engineer in the software engineering function based in Menlo Park, CA. The posting calls out experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes.
- Role
- Platform Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- staff
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Menlo Park, CA
- Department
- Engineering
- Posted
- May 18, 2026
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Job description
from Snowflake careersAt Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform (Menlo Park)
About the Role
We build the foundational container platform that runs Snowflake's production, AI/ML, and CI workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including a rapidly growing AI/ML footprint. Hundreds of large Kubernetes clusters under management and growing. The work is to make that fleet reliable, automated, and invisible to the thousands of engineers building on top of it.