Senior Software Engineer - ManagedDB

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Equity plan

Job summary

Snowflake in Menlo Park is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the ManagedDB Team to architect and scale backend database systems across multi‑cloud environments, delivering high‑throughput, low‑latency services that power the Snowflake platform.

You will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, and SRE to ensure availability and security while driving cross‑team roadmaps and production excellence.

Qualifications

• US citizen or permanent resident status required
• 7–12 years of backend distributed systems experience
• Experience with Go, Java, C++, or Rust in production
• Cloud infrastructure with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• IaC and automation with Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, or CloudFormation
• Strong leadership and cross‑team collaboration

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale database products for internal use
• Drive multi‑cloud strategy across AWS, Azure and GCP
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers
• Ensure high availability, security, and durability
• Lead production incidents and blameless post‑mortems
• Partner with Security, Infra, and SRE for scalable capabilities

Skills

Go

Java

C++

Rust

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

Ansible

CloudFormation

Education

BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Senior Software Engineer - ManagedDB Team

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Work Authorization: US Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) required due to compliance requirements.

Build the Future of Data. Join the Snowflake Team.

Snowflake customers run more than 3.9 billion queries and over 515 million data workloads each day.

The Snowflake Engineering team is a global team of high-performing engineers focused on building best-in-class tooling, automation, and a scalable infrastructure platform to power the Snowflake service. Our focus areas include Snowflake's global-scale multi-cloud infrastructure, core platform services, edge traffic delivery, and reliability engineering. We automate the deployment of the Snowflake production service across dozens of regions and all major cloud providers.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our ManagedDB Team in Menlo Park, CA.

ManagedDB team is responsible in large number of databases running in every Snowflake region across several public cloud providers. Our systems sit at the critical path of multiple external and internal systems including Snowflake UI, Service Discovery, Deployment Automation, CoCo and many others. Given the massive and constantly accelerating volumes of data flowing through Snowflake, this role presents significant opportunities to architect, scale, and innovate at high-throuput, low-latency critical database systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the ManagedDB Team, You Will:

• Architect & Scale: Lead the technical vision, design, and implementation of database products to suit internal needs.
• Drive Multi-Cloud Strategy: Create elegant, cloud-agnostic abstractions and software infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP to ensure seamless management and rapid feature delivery.
• Technical Leadership: Drive complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives from inception to production, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, and establishing software engineering best practices.
• Ensure High Availability & Security: Continuously harden our database infrastructure meet SLAs around uptime, security, and durability.
• Production Excellence: Participate in an on-call rotation, lead incident investigations for complex production issues, and direct blameless post-mortems to drive permanent systemic improvements.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with Security, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to support new product capabilities at scale.

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• Work Authorization: Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card holder).
• Education: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Experience: 7–12 years of professional experience designing, building, operating, and scaling large-scale backend distributed systems in high-growth production environments.
• Core Systems Knowledge: Understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) and experience running large-scale distributed systems.
• Advanced Programming Proficiency: Strong hands-on coding experience in systems and application languages such as Go, Java, C++, or Rust.
• Public Cloud Mastery: Extensive experience architecting infrastructure on major public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including cloud networking constructs (e.g., VPC peering, PrivateLink, Transit Gateways).
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Proficient in automating global fleet deployment and configuration using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Leadership & Influence: Proven track record of technical ownership, breaking down ambiguous problems into concrete roadmaps, and delivering high-impact projects across multiple engineering teams.

Why Join Us?

We value a strong growth mindset and a collaborative, blameless engineering culture. If you thrive on solving complex platform engineering challenges at massive scale, we would love to hear from you.

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.

How do you want to make your impact?

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $287,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.