# Senior Software Engineer - ManagedDB

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Menlo Park, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $200K - $287.5K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

## Compensation

The compensation range for this role is $200K – $287.5K.

## Senior Software Engineer - ManagedDB Team

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our ManagedDB Team in Menlo Park, CA. The ManagedDB team is responsible for a large number of databases running in every Snowflake region across several public cloud providers.

### As a Senior Software Engineer on the ManagedDB Team, You Will:

- Architect & Scale: Lead the technical vision, design, and implementation of database products to suit internal needs.

- Drive Multi-Cloud Strategy: Create elegant, cloud-agnostic abstractions and software infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP to ensure seamless management and rapid feature delivery.

- Technical Leadership: Drive complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives from inception to production, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, and establishing software engineering best practices.

- Ensure High Availability & Security: Continuously harden our database infrastructure to meet SLAs around uptime, security, and durability.

- Production Excellence: Participate in an on-call rotation, lead incident investigations for complex production issues, and direct blameless post-mortems to drive permanent systemic improvements.

- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with Security, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to support new product capabilities at scale.

### Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

- Work Authorization: Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card holder).

- Education: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent professional experience).

- Experience: 7–12 years of professional experience designing, building, operating, and scaling large-scale backend distributed systems in high-growth production environments.

- Core Systems Knowledge: Understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) and experience running large-scale distributed systems.

- Advanced Programming Proficiency: Strong hands-on coding experience in systems and application languages such as Go, Java, C++, or Rust.

- Public Cloud Mastery: Extensive experience architecting infrastructure on major public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including cloud networking constructs (e.g., VPC peering, PrivateLink, Transit Gateways).

- Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Proficient in automating global fleet deployment and configuration using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

- Leadership & Influence: Proven track record of technical ownership, breaking down ambiguous problems into concrete roadmaps, and delivering high-impact projects across multiple engineering teams.

## Skills

### Required
- Go
- Java
- C++
- Rust
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- CloudFormation
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- PostgreSQL
- Redis

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