Software Engineer - Postgres

Snowflake; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Snowflake is recruiting for a backend-focused role in the Snowflake Postgres team. You will build and operate provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration for Snowflake Postgres instances, focusing on secure administration and reliable services.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in backend/distributed systems and strong skills in Java, Go, C++, or Python. Collaboration across product, security, and engineering is essential, with opportunities to mentor others and shape the system's

Qualifications

• 2+ years of production backend/distributed systems experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java/Go/C++/Python.
• CS fundamentals: concurrency, networking, APIs, and data structures.
• Experience designing and operating reliable services in production.
• Experience collaborating with product, security, and engineering teams.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services powering provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of Snowflake Postgres instances.
• Develop access and user model features, including authorization and secure administration flows.
• Improve reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems.
• Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver simple customer experiences on top of infrastructure.
• Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and drive fixes to improve resilience.
• Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring to raise the engineering bar.

Skills

Java

Go

C++

Python

Concurrency

APIs

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

The Snowflake Postgres team is building a managed Postgres experience inside Snowflake. This role is focused on the control plane, where you have the opportunity to work on both on distributed systems at scale and also to work on research grade optimizations at various layers of the software stack including but not limited to provisioning, managing, securing, and operating Postgres in Snowflake. You will work on core backend systems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems, database infrastructure, security, and operational excellence.

In this role, you will:

• Design and build backend services that power provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of Snowflake Postgres instances.
• Develop features in the access and user model, including authorization, secure administration flows, and customer-facing management capabilities.
• Improve the reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems that keep the service healthy.
• Partner with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver simple customer experiences on top of complex infrastructure.
• Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and drive fixes that improve resilience and reduce operational burden.
• Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring while helping raise the engineering bar across the team.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• 2+ years of experience building production software in backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems environments.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of Java, Go, C++, or Python.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, APIs, and data structures.
• Experience designing and operating reliable services in production, including debugging, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience working across technical boundaries with product, security, and other engineering teams.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience with PostgreSQL, database internals, or managed database platforms.
• Experience with identity, authorization, RBAC, or other security-sensitive systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, control plane systems, or highly asynchronous service architectures.

Why join this team?

• Work on a strategic product area that expands Snowflake into transactional and operational database workloads
• Build systems that directly shape how customers create, manage, and secure Postgres inside Snowflake
• Tackle a mix of product engineering, infrastructure, reliability, and security problems.
• Join a collaborative team with meaningful ownership, strong technical challenges, and room to grow

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?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $160,000 - $230,000.
• 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.

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