Software Engineer - Database Search

Highlights

• Build core database-engine capabilities that make customer queries run faster.
• Work on indexing, pruning, and optimization for selective SQL workloads.
• Contribute to Snowflake Optima that makes queries faster with minimal input.

Ideal candidate

Proactive, low-ego systems thinker energized by hard database problems and AI-native ways of working. You love digging to root cause, improving performance, and redefining how data work gets done.

Requirements

• Experience building software through professional work, internships, research, or substantial projects
• Proficiency in C++ and/or Java for efficient, reliable systems software
• Foundational knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design
• Familiarity with SQL and core database concepts or strong interest to learn
• Foundational understanding of concurrency and multithreading
• Proactive, self-motivated approach, pursuing issues to root cause through ambiguity
• Professional proficiency in English
• Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience