Snowflake

Software Engineer - Database Engineering

Menlo Park, California, United States · Work style not stated · FullTime

USD 160,000–230,000/year

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EmployerSnowflake
LocationMenlo Park, California, United States
Work styleWork style not stated
Employment typeFullTime
Employer posted2 months ago
Salary (as stated by the employer)USD 160,000 – 230,000 per year

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’re hiring talented Software Engineers to join the Snowflake Database Engineering team! In this role you will work directly with our team to evolve our elastic, large scale, high-performance data processing system. We need smart engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly – and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies!

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AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

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

Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of some of the largest companies on the planet.

Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.

Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.

Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms which allow Snowflake to provide industry leading data warehousing capabilities.

Design and implement the new service architecture required to enable the Snowflake Data Cloud

Develop tools for improving our customers' insights into their workloads.

OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

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

Fluency in Java or C++.

Familiarity with development in a Linux environment.

Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.

Experience with implementation testing, debugging and documentation.

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field; Masters or PhD preferred.

Ability to work on-site in our Menlo Park / Bellevue / Berlin office.

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

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.

Large scale distributed systems, transactions and consistency models.

Experience in database replication technology

Big data storage technologies and their applications, e.g., HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

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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