Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Menlo Park, California, United States

Salary: $160K–$210K annually

Company

Snowflake provides the Snowflake AI Data Cloud; the role supports Observe by Snowflake, an AI-powered observability platform acquired by Snowflake in February 2026.

What you will do

• Design, build, operate, and scale secure AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure across shared and dedicated customer environments.
• Integrate Observe infrastructure with Snowflake platforms, including CI, source control, and container platform migrations.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and platform automation while moving delivery toward GitOps and independent service deployments.
• Improve access controls, secrets management, production security, high availability, fault tolerance, and operational resilience with Security and Engineering teams.
• Participate in on-call, incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.
• Lead ambiguous infrastructure projects from scope through delivery and mentor newer engineers through design and code reviews.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related roles.
• Experience designing and operating production systems at scale with deep ownership of reliability and operational excellence.
• Strong Kubernetes experience, including architectural decision-making and operational tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or similar tools and GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or similar.
• Experience with least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and securing production access.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with experience building automation and infrastructure systems.
• Experience driving cross-team technical initiatives, influencing infrastructure best practices, balancing operational demands with long-term architecture, and prioritizing under high demand.
• Experience thoughtfully applying AI tooling to infrastructure automation while keeping production changes safe and reviewable.

Nice to have

• Experience leading large migrations involving CI systems, version control, or 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 in high-growth, rapidly evolving engineering environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a small, highly collaborative infrastructure team with broad scope and high ownership.
• Contribute to reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure for an enterprise-scale observability platform.
• Follow Snowflake confidentiality and data security standards as an essential part of the role.
• Operate in an experimental, fast-moving environment focused on innovation and responsible use of AI tooling.