# Software Engineer - Database Engineering

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Menlo Park, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160K – $230K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.

We're hiring talented Software Engineers to join the Snowflake Database Engineering team!

As a Software Engineer at Snowflake, you will:

- 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.

Our ideal Software Engineer will have:

- 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, and 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; Masters or PhD preferred.

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

Bonus points for experience with the following:

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- C++
- Linux
- data structures
- algorithms
- distributed systems
- multi-threading
- concurrency

### Nice to have
- SQL
- database technologies
- query optimization
- query execution
- compiler design
- distributed key value stores
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Hadoop
- Spark

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