Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane
About The Position
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 now building a world class OLTP service on Postgres. We’re hiring Senior Postgres Engineers to help build the new Snowflake Postgres service. This is an exciting opportunity to help build a large scale, multi-cloud Postgres offering with access to an existing customer base.
Requirements
- 7+ years industry experience designing, building and developing large scale systems in production
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available, fault tolerant services
- Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale
- Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills
- Experience with Java, Python/Ruby & Go
- Experience running & maintaining large Postgres servers
- Familiarity with cloud networking (VPCs, PrivateLink, Peering, etc)
- Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science
- Deep, expert knowledge of Postgres (WAL, extensions, configuration, replication, etc)
- Experience designing and implementing large systems for public or private clouds
- FedRAMP and DoD deployment experience
Responsibilities
- Develop orchestration layer/ control-plane of large scale databases
- Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs
- Build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
- Tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest datasets in the world
- Secure and ensure customer data is protected
- Work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry and help redefine the space by inventing at various layers of the software stack — from broad distributed systems to low-level optimizations that fundamentally change the performance characteristics of the system to cater to our customer needs.
Benefits
- For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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