Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane

Snowflake is building a world-class OLTP service on Postgres. We are hiring Senior Postgres Engineers to help build the new Snowflake Postgres service. This is an exciting opportunity to help build a large-scale, multi-cloud Postgres offering with access to an existing customer base.

• Develop orchestration layer/control-plane of large scale databases
• Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs
• Build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
• Tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest datasets in the world
• Secure and ensure customer data is protected
• Work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry and help redefine the space by inventing at various layers of the software stack — from broad distributed systems to low-level optimizations that fundamentally change the performance characteristics of the system to cater to our customer needs.

• 7+ years industry experience designing, building and developing large scale systems in production
• Experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available, fault tolerant services
• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale
• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills
• Experience with Java, Python/Ruby & Go
• Experience running & maintaining large Postgres servers
• Familiarity with cloud networking (VPCs, PrivateLink, Peering, etc)
• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science
• Deep, expert knowledge of Postgres (WAL, extensions, configuration, replication, etc)
• Experience designing and implementing large systems for public or private clouds
• FedRAMP and DoD deployment experience

Compensation: $236,000 – $339,250 USD per year, plus equity. For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information.