Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane
Snowflake · US-WA-Bellevue · US-CA-Menlo Park
Big Tech AIonsitestaff$236k–$339k
At a glance
Highlights
- Help build a world-class, large-scale multi-cloud Postgres OLTP service.
- Develop orchestration and control-plane for large-scale databases.
- Build high-availability and disaster-recovery for massive datasets.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Low-ego, experimental builder energized by AI-native work who loves inventing across the stack and scaling distributed systems for massive real-world impact.
Requirements
- 7+ years designing, building and developing large-scale systems in production
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant services
- Strong understanding of low-level OS concepts including threading, memory, networking and storage
- Experience with Java, Python/Ruby and Go
- Experience running and maintaining large Postgres servers
- Familiarity with cloud networking including VPCs, PrivateLink and peering
- Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Lab profile
About Snowflake
Cloud data platform for storage, analytics, data sharing, and enterprise AI workloads.
What they build
- Snowflake Data Cloud
- Data warehousing and data lakes
- Snowpark developer framework
Known for
- Elastic scalable cloud architecture
- Secure governance and data sharing
- Multi-cloud analytics and AI
Key facts
- Founded in 2012
- Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana
- Public company (NYSE: SNOW)
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