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.
You will be part of the FoundationDB team, which builds features on open-source FDB that improve the performance, scale, reliability, and operability of the product. FoundationDB powers all of Snowflake’s products and services and is rapidly evolving to meet Snowflake’s future needs.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
- Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies, or opportunities for impactful improvements
- Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution to design, implementation, testing, and safe production rollout
- Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever-growing request rate of our database
- Build the next-generation transaction system, caching, storage engine, and multi-tenant capabilities
- Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture
- Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
- Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions
OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
- 6+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Systems programming skills, including multi-threading and concurrency, with fluency in C++, C, or Java preferred
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or web services
- Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. is a plus
- Strong CS fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- A track record of delivering highly complex projects in the distributed systems space
- Intense curiosity, willingness to question, and passion for making systems better
- Strong technical problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Excitement about the challenge of hard technical problems
- A BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD preferred
Compensation Range: $200K - $287K • Offers Equity