Software Engineer (Database Engineering)

• 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!

• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance plans

• Health savings accounts

• Robust retirement plans

• Life and disability insurance

• Weekly online lunch and learns

• Virtual workout classes

• Ergonomic work-from-home equipment

• On-demand mental health and wellness programs

• Fertility benefits and family planning resources

• Generous time-off and various leave plans

• Onsite and Remote Work

• Employee discounts and pre-tax selections

• New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Quarterly bonus or commission program- 2+ years industry experience working on commercial or open-source software

• 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

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

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

• Familiarity with development in a Linux environment

• Fluency in Java or C++

• SQL or other database technologies including internal design and implementation

• Experience with internals of distributed key value stores like FoundationDB and storage engines like RocksDB, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB etc

• Query optimization, query execution, compiler design and implementation

• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL internals

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

• Large scale distributed systems, transactions and consistency models

• Experience in database replication technology

• Data warehouse design, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions like Hadoop and Spark