Software Engineer, Engineering Infrastructure

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Ontario-Toronto, CA · Engineering

Software Engineer, Engineering Infrastructure focused on the CI/CD platform that powers Snowflake's development velocity. You will build, maintain, and improve the continuous integration systems that thousands of engineers rely on every day to ship code with confidence.

What you'd actually do

  1. Contribute to the development and maintenance of continuous integration and delivery pipelines, ensuring reliable and efficient build, test, and release workflows across the organization.
  2. Help manage artifact lifecycle systems including versioning, storage, distribution, and dependency management to support reproducible builds at scale.
  3. Partner with development teams to design and improve code review workflows, branching strategies, and automated integration processes.
  4. Provision, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure to support CI workloads, balancing cost efficiency with performance and reliability.
  5. Troubleshoot build failures, pipeline bottlenecks, and infrastructure issues, driving root-cause analysis and implementing lasting fixes.

Skills

Required

  • 2-5 years of professional experience in a DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering role.
  • Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery systems and practical experience building or maintaining automated build and deployment pipelines.
  • Understanding of artifact repository management and software packaging concepts.
  • Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS preferred) and programmatic resource provisioning.
  • Proficiency with distributed version control systems, code review processes, and repository management.
  • Foundational knowledge of operating system concepts (Linux/Unix), networking fundamentals, and scripting for automation.
  • Experience with containerization and container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred).
  • Strong troubleshooting skills and a methodical approach to debugging distributed systems.
  • Curiosity about how large-scale infrastructure is built, operated, and improved.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools and practices.
  • Scripting proficiency in Python, Groovy, or Bash for build automation and tooling.
  • Exposure to build systems and build graph optimization.
  • Understanding of observability practices including monitoring, logging, and alerting.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.