Cloud Database Engineer - Distributed Systems

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible spending & health savings

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking software engineers to join the Database Engineering team. You will design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database that is highly parallel and fault-tolerant, while building high-quality software for large enterprises.

You will analyze performance bottlenecks and implement robust solutions. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of industry experience, fluency in Java or C++, solid CS fundamentals, and a track record in systems programming, multi-threading, and testing.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience in commercial or open-source software.
• Fluency in Java or C++.
• Experience with development in a Linux environment.
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
• Experience with implementation testing, debugging and documentation.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field; Masters or PhD preferred.
• Ability to work on-site in Menlo Park / Bellevue / Berlin office.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database that is highly parallel and fault-tolerant.
• Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of large enterprises.
• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
• Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components, and implement solutions.
• Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms for Snowflake's Data Cloud.
• Design and implement the new service architecture required to enable the Snowflake Data Cloud.
• Develop tools for improving customers' insights into their workloads.

Skills

Java or C++

Linux development

CS fundamentals

Multi-threading

Testing & debugging

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Masters or PhD preferred

Tools

RocksDB

InnoDB

Job description

Snowflake is seeking software engineers to join the Database Engineering team. You will design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database that is highly parallel and fault-tolerant, while building high-quality software for large enterprises.

You will analyze performance bottlenecks and implement robust solutions. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of industry experience, fluency in Java or C++, solid CS fundamentals, and a track record in systems programming, multi-threading, and testing.