# Staff Software Engineer - Unistore

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Menlo Park, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $236,000 - $339,250
**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.

Snowflake is a high-growth, cloud-native data platform company committed to empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential. With a culture built on impact, innovation, and collaboration, we offer an environment where you can build large-scale systems, move fast, and take your technology career to the next level.

We are seeking a highly talented and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the Unistore team in our Database Engineering. The Unistore team is building a unified hybrid data platform that dissolves the boundaries between operational and analytical workloads. Our core product, Hybrid Tables, enables enterprises to manage both transactional and analytical data in a single place.

**AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:**

- Participate in the development of a unique distributed database system combining high scalability and performance with rich ACID transactions.

- Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements.

- Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms to maintain Snowflake's industry-leading data warehousing capabilities.

- Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system, ensuring it is highly parallel and fault-tolerant.

- Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud.

- Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system.

- Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout.

- Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting our customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance.

- Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies.

- Develop tools to provide customers with greater insight into their workloads.

- Evangelize best practices for database usage and end-to-end system architecture.

- Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers on the team.

**OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:**

- 8+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.

- Strong fluency in C++ or Java.

- Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

- Strong systems programming skills, including experience with multi-threading and concurrency.

- A solid foundation in distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, scaling, failure recovery).

- Experience with implementation testing, debugging, and documentation, specifically within a Linux development environment.

- BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

- Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better.

**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.

- Experience in database replication technology.

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

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Java
- Computer Science fundamentals
- distributed systems
- multi-threading
- concurrency
- Linux development environment

### Nice to have
- SQL
- database technologies
- query optimization
- query execution
- compiler design
- implementation
- FoundationDB
- RocksDB
- InnoDB
- BerkeleyDB
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL internals
- data warehouse design
- database systems
- large-scale data processing solutions
- Hadoop
- Spark
- database replication technology
- big data storage technologies

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