# Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Efficiency

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Bellevue, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200K – $287.5K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At 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.

Snowflake runs large scale cloud infrastructure to deliver its own service , production and internal deployments, Kubernetes fleets, CI/CD, etc. Our cloud spend is in billions of dollars per year. The Cloud Efficiency team builds a unified, self-serve cloud efficiency platform along with AI skills and agents that makes spend observable, attributable, governable while driving insights and optimization of our cloud spend.

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable platform for resource ownership registry, usage attribution, utilization measurement, and cost modeling.

- Build AI agents, tools and automation to enhance system monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.

- Improve and optimize data ingestion, storage, and query efficiency for cloud utilization, cost and efficiency data at scale.

- Collaborate with teams across Snowflake to understand attribution and observability needs and implement solutions that improve operational visibility.

- Contribute to open-source and industry best practices in monitoring and distributed systems monitoring.

- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of team-managed platforms by participating in on-call rotations and incident management.

- Partner with Finance, Product and Engineering teams to turn usage, cost and utilization insights into landed operational change.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR:

- 7+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.

- Experience with cost optimization and efficiency work on systems built on large private clouds or public cloud providers.

- Deep system and architectural analysis experience to identify actionable performance and efficiency insights.

- History of delivering large cross functional projects with measurable impact.

- Proficiency in programming languages such as Go, Python or Java.

- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a production environment.

- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

- BS / MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related fields.

- Prior background building AI agents and working with LLMs.

NICE TO HAVE:

- Experience developing or using observability infrastructure such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus etc.

- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and its billing models , AWS, Azure, or GCP: compute instance families, storage tiers, networking and data-transfer charges, reserved vs. on-demand, and how billing/CUR exports are structured.

- FinOps experience: cost attribution, chargeback, showback, or unit-economics programs.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Python
- Java
- AI agents
- LLMs
- cost optimization
- efficiency work
- large scale systems
- system analysis
- architectural analysis
- problem-solving
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- FinOps
- cost attribution
- chargeback
- showback
- unit-economics programs

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