Snowflake-posted 25 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Bellevue, WA
5,001-10,000 employees

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. 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.
  • 5+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
  • Strong fluency in Java or C++.
  • 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.
  • SQL or other database technologies including internal design and implementation.
  • Query optimization, query execution, compiler design and implementation.
  • Experience with internals of distributed key value stores like FoundationDB and storage engines like RocksDB, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB etc.
  • Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL internals
  • Data warehouse design, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions like Hadoop and Spark.
  • Experience in database replication technology
  • Big data storage technologies and their applications, e.g., HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.
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