Software Engineer L2 Cloud Infrastructure Salary Guide in United States

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is a high-growth, cloud-native data platform company committed to empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential. With a culture built on impact, innovation, and collaboration, we offer an environment where you can build large-scale systems, move fast, and take your technology career to the next level. We are seeking an outstanding Staff Software Engineer with a passion for large scale databases and distributed systems to help us take the FDB platform to the next level. A massive new market opportunity is being created at the intersection of Cloud and Data, and the Snowflake Data Cloud is leading the way, all powered by the database engine we are building from the ground up. Key to Snowflake’s Database Engine is our large scale distributed transactional Key-Value store - called FDB - which powers all of Snowflake’s products and services and is rapidly evolving to meet Snowflake’s future needs. FDB runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. The elastic infrastructure FDB runs on is being built from the ground up and is envisioned to be a cloud agnostic, fully automated manageability platform that provides: Autoscaling and auto-balancing of clusters based on utilization, traffic and workloads Auto-provis

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Our team builds and operates Snowflake's Streaming Platform — the core infrastructure responsible for bringing data into Snowflake continuously and at scale. This includes Snowpipe Streaming and Datastream, services used by large set of enterprise customers to move mission-critical data in real time. Data is the fuel powering the new enterprise AI world, and we are the team responsible for getting it there reliably, continuously, and fast. Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain core components of Snowflake's streaming ingestion platform Improve service reliability, scalability, and latency under high-throughput production workloads Debug and resolve incidents in a distributed, multi-tenant cloud service Contribute to the design and evolution of streaming APIs, SDKs, and server-side protocols Write comprehensive tests including unit, integration, and chaos/fault-injection scenarios Collaborate with partner teams (storage, query, compute) on cross-cutting platform concerns Participate in code reviews, on-call rotations, and architecture discussions Required Qualifications 3–5 years of software engineering experience on large-scale distributed systems or cloud services Strong proficiency in Java or C++ Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts: consistency, faul

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud and engineered for scale. We ingest and store logs, metrics, traces, and events on an open, scalable data lakehouse using Apache Iceberg — at dramatically lower cost. OpenTelemetry is the foundation of how customers send data to Observe, and we are making significant investment in upstream OTel contributions to ensure Observe is the best destination for OTel-instrumented environments. As a Senior Software Engineer on the OpenTelemetry team, you'll play a key role in driving Observe's open-source strategy within the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. You'll work on some of the most exciting challenges in telemetry collection and instrumentation — expanding coverage into emerging domains like LLM/AI observability and Browser RUM — while collaborating closely with the OTel community to shape the standards that the industry builds on. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - OBSERVE BY SNOWFLAKE, OPENTELEMETRY, YOU WILL: Pioneer new instrumentation capabilities in the OpenTelemetry community, defining and building next-generation telemetry collection for emerging domains including LLM/AI inference, Browser RUM, and mobile. Design and implement OTel Collector components (receivers, processors, exporte

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. About the AI Products team The AI Products team is part of the broader Marketplace & Collaboration organization and is focused on bringing AI products on top of Snowflake’s data and application platform to help customers discover, share, monetize, and act on data assets & applications more easily. This team is building the connective tissue of the agentic enterprise: the infrastructure and product surfaces that allow Snowflake customers to seamlessly share datasets, semantic views, and applications, and make them discoverable and executable through Cortex Code, CoWork, and other agentic harnesses. Our strategy is centered on evolving Snowflake Marketplace for the AI era, including packaging data and intelligence into ready-to-use agentic experiences, and enabling governed access patterns that let AI systems safely operate on enterprise data and applications. As a Staff Software Engineer on AI Products, you will Lead the design and delivery of large, complex initiatives spanning multiple teams, turning ambiguous product and platform opportunities into durable technical solutions. Shape the architecture for how datasets, applications, semantic assets, and agentic capabilities are shared, discovered, governed, and invoked across Snowflake surfaces and third-party agent

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. About Dynamic Tables Dynamic Tables (DTs) are Snowflake's declarative streaming transformation primitive. Customers define a SQL query and a freshness target; Snowflake handles the rest: orchestrating refreshes, maintaining snapshot consistency across a DAG of dependencies, and automatically incrementalizing the computation so that cost scales with what changed. Dynamic Tables is one of the fastest growing products at Snowflake and is a core part of Snowflake’s Data Engineering strategy. The Dynamic Tables performance team is responsible for making incremental refresh fast, predictable, and cost-efficient across increasingly complex query shapes. As a Staff Engineer on this team, you will own the technical direction for critical performance initiatives and be a force multiplier for the engineers around you. What You'll Do Lead the design and implementation of performance improvements to the incremental view maintenance engine, including multi-join incrementalization, novel incrementalization semantics, incremental window functions, and stacked operations. Help define the roadmap for the incremental view maintenance engine, identifying key performance, scalability, and correctness milestones, prioritizing high-impact enhancements, and aligning technical investments with prod

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are looking for a talented and passionate Senior Software Engineer for our Snowpark Container Service , part of our Snowflake Compute Platform - to build our elastic, high-scale, high-performance, cloud native compute platform to enable bringing Compute to Data effortless and simple. Snowpark Container Services is a fully managed container offering that helps our customers easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications without having to move data out of Snowflake. As a fully managed service, it comes with Snowflake security, configuration, and operational best practices built in. You will be part of this highly productive, fast moving, and growing team that is critical to realizing Snowflake’s Data Cloud Mission. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL: ● Design and develop features, understand customer requirements and meet business goals. ● Lead a team of engineers, including mentoring and guiding them, and build technical direction and strategy for large and critical parts of the product surface area. ● Manage all aspects of the Project, including Design, Coding, Reviews, Testing, Observability, Tooling and On-Call support. ● Build highly reliable and fault-tolerant software to meet the needs of the largest customers. ● Ensure operational readiness and ma

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are hiring a Principal Engineer II to architect the core data processing engine of the Snowflake Data & AI Cloud. At Snowflake, we believe that high-performance, unified compute fabrics are the indispensable building blocks for Agentic AI. Autonomous agents require more than just models; they require a high-fidelity, low-latency state layer to reason, act, and persist context. This role is not about building traditional data processing pipelines or legacy ETL/ELT workflows; it is about building the core distributed systems and atomic primitives that make those agentic workflows possible. In this role, you will be a lead architect of the Snowflake Data Transformation Engine. You will design and implement the fundamental transformations infrastructure—Stateful Stream Processing Engines, Incremental View Maintenance Engine, Materialization Internals, and the Distributed Orchestration Fabric. Our solid foundation supporting the seamless transition for enterprises between batch and streaming through Dynamic Tables, Streams & Tasks, and DBT Projects is the starting point. Your architectural work will extend the reach of the core engine to accelerate and support the massive scale of the Snowpark and Spark ecosystems. You are building the systems that allow both data eng

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud and engineered for scale. We ingest and store logs, metrics, traces, and events on an open, scalable data lakehouse using open formats like Apache Iceberg — at dramatically lower cost. A dynamic Context Graph and chat-based AI SRE provide rich context and automated workflows so teams can move from detection to root cause and resolution 10x faster. Leading engineering teams at companies like Capital One, Topgolf, and Dialpad rely on Observe to troubleshoot hundreds of terabytes of telemetry daily while maintaining reliability at enterprise scale. As part of Snowflake, Observe combines startup-style ownership and velocity with the global reach, operational excellence, and ecosystem of one of the world's leading data platforms. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Observe Data Management team. This team owns the core pipelines that ingest and process over 1 petabyte of telemetry data per day — the foundational infrastructure powering Observe's entire observability stack. You'll be working at the intersection of massive scale, open-source innovation, and real-world reliability challenges for enterprise customers around the globe. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - OBSERVE

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Easily analyze your unstructured data, build data agents and create ML workflows using a comprehensive suite of AI services, all within the same secure and governed environment as your data. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow. The identity & access management (IAM) team’s charter is to enable our customers to confidently bring their most sensitive data and workloads to Snowflake. We provide the authentication and authorization capabilities for customers to secure their Snowflake accounts. We are heavily focused on critical AI adoption and security capabilities like Snowflake Intelligence access control, MCP server and clients, Agent identity, Admin guardrails for agents etc. Our feature set includes capabilities like user management, secret-less authentication for both human and service

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Come join us in this super high impact role as we build the future of Snowflake! Snowsight is the perfect place for data professionals to do their best work, and in this role you'll be making it even better. You'll join a wildly talented, multi-disciplinary team to not only reimagine existing Snowsight experiences, but also to extend it to exciting new surfaces and unlock high value business opportunities. Acting as a startup within Snowflake, together we'll iterate quickly, ship daily, and experiment continuously. This is a phenomenal opportunity to revolutionize how people across the world turn data into knowledge, and knowledge into opportunities. As a senior technical leader on this team, you'll have exceptional impact, both shaping and shipping amazing experiences — and helping the engineers around you do the very best work of their careers. YOU WILL: Act as a technical leader and deep domain expert across the stack, owning an area of the product end-to-end with an eye toward service health, quality, and customer experience. Lead large, cross-team projects from architecture through delivery — identifying opportunities, making the right trade-offs in the context of overall company goals, and driving them to completion. Leverage agentic AI to accelerate your work (and th

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Staff Software Engineer - Container Platform (Menlo Park) About the Role We build the foundational container platform that runs Snowflake's production, AI/ML, and CI workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including a rapidly growing AI/ML footprint. Hundreds of large Kubernetes clusters under management and growing. The work is to make that fleet reliable, automated, and invisible to the thousands of engineers building on top of it. This is a staff-level role on a senior, high-performing platform team. You'll own hard problems end to end, drive technical direction across teams, and build the automation and platform abstractions that make operating at this scale sustainable. There is significant unsolved work ahead: improving the developer experience for thousands of internal engineers and continuing to scale the platform to meet Snowflake's growth. What You'll Do Own the design and delivery of large, complex platform initiatives spanning cluster lifecycle management, multi-cloud automation, and internal developer tooling. Identify and drive cross-team technical improvements across the platform, from architecture through adoption. Make and defend architectural trade-offs grounded in reliability, scalability, and operational reality. Act as a technical anchor for the team, dev

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Observe by Snowflake is an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud and engineered for scale. We ingest and store logs, metrics, traces, and events on an open, scalable data lakehouse, using open formats like Apache Iceberg, at dramatically lower cost. A dynamic Context Graph and chat-based AI SRE provide rich context and automated workflows so teams can move from detection to root cause of production issue and resolution 10x faster. Leading engineering teams at companies like Capital One, Topgolf, and Dialpad rely on Observe to troubleshoot hundreds of terabytes of telemetry daily while maintaining reliability at enterprise scale. As part of Snowflake, Observe combines startup-style ownership and velocity with the global reach, operational excellence, and ecosystem of one of the world’s leading data platforms. In this role you will: Develop interactive, data-rich user interfaces using React, TypeScript, and Vega, with a focus on integrating LLM-driven features (e.g., natural language querying, generative UI, and AI-assisted data storytelling). Lead the end-to-end delivery of substantial product features, ensuring AI outputs are presented with high reliability and low latency. Work closely with PMs, UX designers, and AI/ML engineers to bridge t

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. The Product Security team ensures that Snowflake products are built and shipped with the highest level of security. Our team drives the security posture of Snowflake products and is responsible for embedding security into every stage of the product lifecycle, from design through deployment and beyond. We design and build frameworks, systems and services that keep Snowflake secure. As a Principal Software Engineer II on the Product Security team, you will be the senior technical authority for Product Security and play a critical leadership role in shaping and advancing Snowflake’s security. This is a unique opportunity to define and influence our long-term security strategy and have a direct impact on the security of the Snowflake platform and the trust of our customers. You will operate across organizational boundaries, guiding major security initiatives, influencing architectural decisions at the highest levels, setting the technical direction for the organization, and ensuring consistent security excellence across all product teams while working closely with business leaders to advance Snowflake’s business. The role requires deep expertise in security, software engineering, distributed systems, software infrastructure, AI/ML, applied cryptography, threat modeling and clou

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are the Snowflake Metadata team. We own Snowflake’s metadata systems that make it easy for customers to query, modify and manage their petabyte-scale data. We develop distributed systems that store and maintain metadata, transaction frameworks that power Snowflake’s query and DML capabilities, asynchronous systems that provide time travel and lifecycle management capabilities and entity metadata supporting DDL capabilities. We also build foundational capabilities that deliver global features like cross-region replication (Snowgrid), data sharing, and data marketplace. AS A PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL: Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills. Design, develop and support fault-tolerant scalable distributed systems for our Snowgrid and Data Sharing teams. Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects. Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them. Mentor and grow junior engineers. Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services. Ensure operational readiness of

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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. About the team The Apps & Experiences Platform team powers the systems and services behind all of our user-facing applications, including Snowsight, Snowflake Intelligence, and new mobile experiences. Our mission is to build innovative backend services, developer tooling, platform infrastructure, and AI-powered capabilities that enable exceptional product experiences at scale. As part of our team, you’ll work across feature development, platform engineering, infrastructure, and internal tooling to support both end users and developers. We care deeply about building systems that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and performant. Snowflake is a high-growth AI Data Cloud company, and we’re looking for exceptional engineers to help us scale the next generation of our platform. A key part of this is our work on our internal AI developer agent, which is designed to democratize end-to-end app development across all engineering teams by translating product specs and designs into fully functional, production-ready features. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER FOR THE APPS & EXPERIENCES PLATFORM TEAM, YOU WILL: Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and platform infrastructure that power Snowflake’s user-facing applications. Contribute across the full development l