Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane

EngRadar; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 339,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is building a world class OLTP service on Postgres. We’re hiring Senior Postgres Engineers to help build the new Snowflake Postgres service, a large-scale, multi-cloud offering with an existing customer base.

As a Senior Postgres Engineer you will develop orchestration layers, work with AWS/Azure/GCP APIs, and ensure high availability, data protection, and performance at scale. Join a team of highly skilled engineers shaping the future of data and AI.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing and building large-scale production systems.
• Distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant services experience.
• Strong understanding of OS concepts, multi-threading, memory and I/O.
• Solid CS fundamentals and algorithmic thinking.
• Proficiency in Java, Python/Ruby, and Go.
• Experience running large Postgres servers and tuning them.
• Familiar with cloud networking (VPC, PrivateLink, Peering).
• Able to work with remote, distributed teams and communicate clearly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop orchestration layer / control-plane for large-scale databases.
• Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs.
• Build high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Tune Postgres to operate at scale for large datasets.
• Secure and protect customer data.
• Collaborate with top engineers to redefine the space across software layers.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Low-level OS concepts

CS fundamentals

Java

Python/Ruby

Go

Cloud networking

Remote teamwork

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS

Job description

EngRadar / Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane

Snowflake

Snowflake is an AI Data Cloud company that empowers enterprises to achieve their full potential through innovative data and AI solutions.

Snowflake is the employer — EngRadar is a job radar, not a recruiter. We track this posting from their own careers page and send you straight there; we never handle applications or CVs.

US-WA-BellevueUS-CA-Menlo Park Full-time $236k–$339k

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.

Snowflake is now building a world class OLTP service on Postgres. We’re hiring Senior Postgres Engineers to help build the new Snowflake Postgres service. This is an exciting opportunity to help build a large scale, multi-cloud Postgres offering with access to an existing customer base.

As a Senior Postgres Engineer You Will

• Develop orchestration layer/ control-plane of large scale databases


• Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs


• Build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions


• Tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest datasets in the world


• Secure and ensure customer data is protected


• Work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry and help redefine the space by inventing at various layers of the software stack — from broad distributed systems to low-level optimizations that fundamentally change the performance characteristics of the system to cater to our customer needs.

Our Ideal Senior Postgres Engineer Will Have

• 7+ years industry experience designing, building and developing large scale systems in production


• Experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available, fault tolerant services


• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale


• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills


• Experience with Java, Python/Ruby & Go


• Experience running & maintaining large Postgres servers


• Familiarity with cloud networking (VPCs, PrivateLink, Peering, etc)


• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

The Following Are Considered a Plus

• Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science


• Deep, expert knowledge of Postgres (WAL, extensions, configuration, replication, etc)


• Experience designing and implementing large systems for public or private clouds


• FedRAMP and DoD deployment experience

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.