Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Observe by Snowflake

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, build, and operation of scalable, secure AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure across shared and dedicated customer environments, supporting a high-scale observability platform.

• Help integrate Observe's infrastructure into Snowflake's platforms, including CI, source control, and container platform migrations, bridging startup-era systems with enterprise-grade standards.

• Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and platform automation, moving our delivery pipeline toward GitOps and independent, safe service deployments.

• Partner with the Security team to improve access controls, secrets management, and the security posture of production environments, enabling other teams (including AI and automation initiatives) to move fast without compromising security or maintainability.

• Design and implement infrastructure patterns that ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and operational resilience.

• Participate in the infrastructure on-call rotation and play a key role in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements that drive systemic reliability enhancements.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product and Engineering teams to ensure infrastructure strategy supports long-term platform evolution.

• Take ownership of ambiguous projects from scoping through delivery, and help onboard and mentor newer engineers on a growing team through design and code reviews.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or related roles.

• Demonstrated experience designing and operating production systems at scale, with deep ownership of reliability and operational excellence.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes, including architectural decision-making and operational tuning.

• Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or similar) and GitOps tooling (ArgoCD or similar), with a focus on scalable system design.

• Experience with least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and securing production access.

• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with a track record of building automation and infrastructure systems.

• Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives and influencing infrastructure best practices.

• Ability to balance immediate operational demands with long-term architectural vision.

• Comfortable saying no or "not yet" with a clear rationale, and prioritizing ruthlessly when inbound demand exceeds capacity.

• Track record of thoughtfully applying AI tooling to infrastructure automation while keeping production changes safe and reviewable.

Nice to Have

• Experience leading large migrations (CI systems, version control, deployment platforms).

• Experience with post-acquisition or platform-consolidation work.

• Familiarity with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, or monitoring infrastructure.

• Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms.

• Experience working in high-growth, rapidly evolving engineering environments.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

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