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# Staff Software Engineer - Engineering Systems, Continuous Integration Team

- **Company:** Snowflake Inc.
- **Location:** Bellevue, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $236,000.0 - $339,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Systems Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Software Code Optimization, Code Review, Continuous Integration, Data Structures, Data Systems, Programming Tools, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Github, Python (Programming Language), Systems Architecture, Snowflake, Caching, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18614341/Staff-Software-Engineer-Engineering-Systems-Continuous-Integration-Team-Washington-Bellevue

## About the Role

8+ years of industry experience designing and building distributed systems at scale

 - A track record of technical leadership - owning system architecture, driving design decisions, and raising the technical bar for a team or organization

 - Deep experience with enterprise-grade Continuous Integration for cloud-based distributed systems - you've built, scaled, or significantly evolved CI infrastructure at a comparable scale

 - Strong passion for making developers highly productive - you think about developer experience as a product and are energized by making engineers faster and happier

 - Excellent CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and systems design

 - Fluency in Java, C++, Python, or Go - with the versatility to work across languages and systems

 - A strategic mindset - strong sense of what to prioritize for maximum impact and the ability to translate strategy into executable technical plans

 - Ability to mentor and influence - you elevate engineers around you through code reviews, design guidance, and technical mentorship

 - Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal - with the ability to articulate technical tradeoffs clearly to engineering and leadership audiences

Preferred:

 - Experience developing data systems or distributed systems internals

 - Hands-on experience with Jenkins, Bazel, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or other CI/CD suites at scale

 - Experience designing multi-tenant systems with focus on reliability, performance, isolation, and security

 - Proven experience authoring roadmap documents, technical design docs, project plans, and RCAs

 - Experience with build system optimization - caching strategies, parallelization, incremental builds, and resource scheduling

 - Background in developer tooling or platform engineering organizations

## Description

Own the technical direction and architecture of Snowflake's CI platform - designing systems that scale reliably across thousands of developers, millions of builds, and a rapidly growing multi-repository codebase

 - Lead the design and implementation of distributed CI services that are elastic, performant, and fault-tolerant across cloud providers

 - Drive the CI platform strategy - partner with product managers and engineering leadership to define quarterly and long-term roadmaps that balance customer needs with technical innovation

 - Set the engineering bar for the team through code reviews, design reviews, and architectural guidance - ensuring the CI platform is built with the quality and rigor expected of enterprise-grade infrastructure

 - Identify and resolve systemic technical challenges - from build performance and resource efficiency to multi-tenant isolation, reliability, and security

 - Mentor and develop engineers on the team - elevate technical judgment, design quality, and engineering craftsmanship across the group

 - Stay ahead of the curve - evaluate and adopt emerging CI/CD technologies, tooling patterns, and industry best practices to keep Snowflake's developer platform at the leading edge

 - Be a key stakeholder in cross-team initiatives that affect developer productivity - collaborating with adjacent ES teams and engineering leadership to shape the broader developer experience