Snowflake-posted 29 days ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Menlo Park, CA
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. A massive new market opportunity is being created at the intersection of Cloud and Data, and the Snowflake Data Cloud is leading the way. At the center of the data cloud is the Snowflake Database Engineering team, responsible for building the core query engine used to process the massive amounts of diverse data managed by our customers. A core part of the Database Engineering group is the Query Language team which is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining core SQL features catering to advanced analytics, scripting, developer-experience and AI-powered use cases. Our innovations in these areas make it seamless for our customers to run their database workloads on Snowflake. Our ambitions are huge and this role is a unique opportunity to help us achieve them, by making a significant impact on the SQL experience for customers on Snowflake. We’re passionate about our people, our customers, our values and our culture! We’re also looking for people with a growth mindset and the pragmatic insight to solve for today while building for the future. And as a Snowflake employee, you will be accountable for supporting and enabling diversity and belonging.

  • Identify and implement novel advancements to Snowflake’s core query language, scripting and timeseries offerings
  • Work back from customer and developer needs to build the next-generation query language improvements
  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.
  • Design, develop and support highly parallel and fault tolerant database system features all the while optimizing for high performance
  • Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
  • Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
  • Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions.
  • Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions
  • Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, testing and safe production rollout
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability and performance
  • Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture
  • Mentor and grow junior engineers.
  • 10+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services.
  • Significant background in database internals or building core components (query language, query compilation, query execution, storage engines, transaction processing) for large-scale data processing systems (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Presto, etc.)
  • Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems (Fluency in C++, C, or Java preferred)
  • Expertise in systems fundamentals including multi-threading, concurrency, IO subsystems and scheduling
  • Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance, and schema design
  • Strong communication, and collaboration skills
  • Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems.
  • Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations
  • Masters or PhD is preferred.
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • life
  • disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • flexible spending & health savings account
  • at least 12 paid holidays
  • paid time off
  • parental leave
  • employee assistance program
  • other company benefits
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