Senior Postgres Engineer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent learning experience)
• 5+ 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

• No specified nice to have requirements

Perks and Benefits

• No specified perks and benefits