Infrastructure Engineer, Observe by Snowflake at Snowflake

Department: Engineering

Compensation

$160,000 – $230,000/yr

Setup: On-site
Location: Menlo Park, California
Type: Full-time
Level: mid
Posted: Sep 24, 2026

Description

Snowflake is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer for its Observe by Snowflake team to design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure supporting a high-scale observability platform. The role covers reliability, performance, CI/CD, security, high availability, incident response, and collaboration with engineering teams. Candidates need at least two years of infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or related experience, along with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, programming, production-scale systems, and cloud experience. The estimated base salary is $160,000–$230,000, with bonus and equity eligibility and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits.

Required Skills

AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
Ansible
Go
Python
CI/CD
Observability

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: At least 2 years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related role
Experience operating Kubernetes container orchestration platforms
Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
Programming experience in Go, Python, or a similar language focused on automation and systems development
Experience supporting production systems at scale with a focus on reliability and operational excellence
Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
Preferred Qualifications: Experience operating large-scale distributed systems
Familiarity with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, or monitoring infrastructure
Experience improving developer platform tooling or internal infrastructure platforms
Experience working in high-growth or rapidly evolving engineering environments