Senior Postgres Engineer

Where Data Does More. Join the Snowflake team.Snowflake started with a clear vision: make modern data warehousing effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Because traditional on-premise and cloud solutions struggle with this, Snowflake developed an innovative product with a new, built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional OLAP solutions. To complement this world class OLAP service, Snowflake is now building a world class OLTP service on Postgres.Join us as a Postgres Engine and Extensions Engineer and contribute to the development of Snowflake's new Postgres service. This is a unique opportunity to innovate and build differentiating technology for a large, multi-cloud Postgres offering, capitalizing on our existing customer base. Our team includes some of the most experienced Postgres extension engineers worldwide, working with cutting-edge data technologies such as Apache Iceberg.As a Postgres Engineer you willExplore new database technologies and innovate to bring new capabilities to PostgresDesign and develop Postgres extensions to bring differentiating features to Snowflake’s offeringsIdentify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, and data movement algorithms to deliver industry-leading performanceDeal with a broad set of (distributed) systems challenges from protocol design and fault-tolerance to resource management and parallel executionAnalyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve themPinpoint problems, build instrumentation (as needed), and deliver solutionsOwn the end to end delivery of projects’ from identifying a solution, to designing, implementation, testing, and safe production rolloutCommunicate and collaborate with different products groups across different time zonesOur ideal engineer will haveBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent learning experience)5+ years of software engineering experience in high performance mission critical softwareExperience with Postgres internals and its extension frameworkStrong CS and database fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures and algorithms, SQL, distributed systems (Fluency in C preferred)Motivation to push outside of comfort zone, learn and deliver innovative solutionsTrack record of working in high velocity engineering teams and delivery products to marketSnowflake 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.How do you want to make your impact?For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com