Postgres Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent learning experience)
• 2-4 years of software engineering experience in high performance mission critical software
• Experience with Postgres internals and its extension framework
• Strong 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 solutions
• Track record of working in high velocity engineering teams and delivery products to market

What You'll Be Doing

• Explore new database technologies and innovate to bring new capabilities to Postgres
• Design and develop Postgres extensions to bring differentiating features to Snowflake’s offerings
• Identify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, and data movement algorithms to deliver industry-leading performance
• Deal with a broad set of (distributed) systems challenges from protocol design and fault-tolerance to resource management and parallel execution
• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
• Pinpoint problems, build instrumentation (as needed), and deliver solutions
• Own the end to end delivery of projects’ from identifying a solution, to designing, implementation, testing, and safe production rollout
• Communicate and collaborate with different products groups across different time zones

Nice to Haves

• N/A

Perks and Benefits

• 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.