Software Engineer - Database Engineering

US-CA-Menlo Park. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will evolve an elastic, large scale, high-performance data processing system. This involves designing, developing, and supporting a petabyte-scale cloud database.

What you will do

Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database that is highly parallel and fault-tolerant.
Build high-quality and highly reliable software.
Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components, and implement solutions.
Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms.
Design and implement the new service architecture required to enable the Snowflake Data Cloud.
Develop tools for improving customers' insights into their workloads.

Required qualifications

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

Nice to have

Masters or PhD preferred.
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.

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.