Senior Software Engineer, FoundationDB — Scale & Systems

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Equity plan

Medical benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking an outstanding Senior Software Engineer with a passion for large scale databases and distributed systems to help us take FoundationDB to the next level. FoundationDB powers all of Snowflake’s products and services and is rapidly evolving to meet Snowflake’s future needs.

We are growing at a fast rate and need to scale FoundationDB by at least one order of magnitude over the next few years.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on software engineering experience.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or web services.
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

Responsibilities

• Identify strategically important problems and opportunities for impactful improvements.
• Own end-to-end delivery from design to production rollout.
• Design and implement high performance systems to handle increasing request rates.
• Build next generation transaction system, caching, storage engine and multi-tenant capabilities.
• Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture.

Skills

Distributed systems

Multi-threading

C/C++/Java

Web services

Problem solving

Education

BS in CS

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

FoundationDB

RocksDB/LevelDB

DynamoDB

Redis

Job description

Snowflake is seeking an outstanding Senior Software Engineer with a passion for large scale databases and distributed systems to help us take FoundationDB to the next level. FoundationDB powers all of Snowflake’s products and services and is rapidly evolving to meet Snowflake’s future needs.

We are growing at a fast rate and need to scale FoundationDB by at least one order of magnitude over the next few years.