Senior Software Engineer - Database Engineering

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 a highly talented and experienced Software Engineer to join our Database Engineering team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our core product: an elastic, large-scale, high-performance data processing system. We are looking for smart, enthusiastic engineers who can quickly master complex technical areas and are passionate about building new, industry-leading technologies.

- Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms to maintain Snowflake's industry-leading data warehousing capabilities.

- Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system, ensuring it is highly parallel and fault-tolerant.

- Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud.

- Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system.

- Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout.

- Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting our customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance.

- Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies.

- Develop tools to provide customers with greater insight into their workloads.

- Evangelize best practices for database usage and end-to-end system architecture.

- Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers on the team.

- 6+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.

- Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

- Strong systems programming skills, including experience with multi-threading and concurrency.

- A solid foundation in distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, scaling, failure recovery).

- Experience with implementation testing, debugging, and documentation , specifically within a Linux development environment.

- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

- Working experience in database internal design and implementation, systems programming and large scale distributed systems design and implementation

- Experience with working on design, implementation and production-izing distributed key value stores like FoundationDB across multiple clouds.