Senior Software Engineer - Database Engineering

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.

, and the Snowflake Data Cloud is leading the way.

At the center of the data cloud is the Snowflake Database Engineering team, responsible for building the core query engine used to process the massive amounts of diverse data managed by our customers. A core part of the Database Engineering group is the Query Language team which is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining core SQL features catering to advanced analytics, scripting, developer-experience and AI-powered use cases. Our innovations in these areas make it seamless for our customers to run their database workloads on Snowflake. Our ambitions are huge and this role is a unique opportunity to help us achieve them, by making a significant impact on the SQL experience for customers on Snowflake.

We’re passionate about our people, our customers, our values and our culture! We’re also looking for people with a growth mindset and the pragmatic insight to solve for today while building for the future. And as a Snowflake employee, you will be accountable for supporting and enabling diversity and belonging.

AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL :

Identify and implement novel advancements to Snowflake’s core query language, scripting and timeseries offerings

Work back from customer and developer needs to build the next-generation query language improvements

Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.

Design, develop and support highly parallel and fault tolerant database system features all the while optimizing for high performance

Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects

Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them

Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure.

Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions.

Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions

Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, testing and safe production rollout

Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability and performance

Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture

Mentor and grow junior engineers.

OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE :

7+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services.

Significant background in database internals or building core components (query language, query compilation, query execution, storage engines, transaction processing) for large-scale data processing systems (, Spark, Presto, etc.)

Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems (Fluency in C++, C, or Java preferred)

Expertise in systems fundamentals including multi-threading, concurrency, IO subsystems and scheduling

Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance, and schema design

Strong communication, and collaboration skills

Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems.

Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations

Masters or PhD is preferred.

WHY JOIN THE DATABASE ENGINEERING TEAM A SNOWFLAKE?

Building a new enterprise cloud platform is complex, and our engineering team surmounts the obstacles. As a member of our team, you will :

Build an industry-leading data management system that customers love

Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!

Learn about and contribute to :

Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and millions of complex queries daily

Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines

User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience.

Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.