# Staff Software Engineer - Query Processing (Snowtrail)

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Menlo Park, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $236K - $339.2K
**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.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Snowtrail team, you will help Snowflake realize its mission and vision by accelerating the delivery of high-quality software to production. You will have the opportunity to design and build software systems to help engineering teams increase their development velocity and provide quality validation, optimized for cost and performance.

## Responsibilities

Our ideal Staff Software Engineer will have:

- Experience with SQL or other database technologies including internal design and implementation

- Experience with query optimization, query execution, compiler design and implementation

- Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL internals

- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems infrastructure

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

- Ability to work in a team environment, collaborate well, and mentor junior engineers

- Ability to work on-site at our Bellevue, WA or Menlo Park, CA offices.

## Bonus Points

Experience with one or more of the following:

- Experience with Release Validation Pipelines, Test infrastructure in Production.

## Compensation

- $236K – $339.2K

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- database technologies
- query optimization
- query execution
- compiler design
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- large-scale distributed systems
- data structures
- algorithms
- distributed systems

### Nice to have
- Release Validation Pipelines
- Test infrastructure in Production

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