Staff Software Engineer - Unistore

The role

You will participate in the development of a unique distributed database system and design a petabyte-scale cloud database system. You will work on the Unistore team to build a unified hybrid data platform.

What you will do

• Participate in the development of a unique distributed database system combining high scalability and performance with rich ACID transactions.
• Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements.
• Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms.
• Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system.
• 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 projects including design, implementation, testing, and production rollout.
• Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services.
• Build high-quality, highly reliable software.
• Develop tools to provide customers with greater insight into their workloads.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
• Strong fluency in C++ or Java.
• 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.
• BS in Computer Science.
• Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better

Nice to have

• Masters or PhD
• 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.

About the company

Snowflake is a high-growth, cloud-native data platform company committed to empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential.