Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Paid time off

Paid holidays

401(k)

Retirement plan

Job summary

Snowflake is building a world-class OLTP service on Postgres and seeking a Senior Postgres Engineer to help deliver a large-scale, multi-cloud Postgres offering with an established customer base. You will design an orchestration layer, tune Postgres for huge datasets, and implement HA/DR while collaborating with distributed teams across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

You will work with experts on low-level OS concepts, programming in Java, Python/Ruby & Go, and ensure data security.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience designing, building and developing large scale systems in production.
• Experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available, fault tolerant services.
• Strong understanding of low level OS concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance and scale.
• Excellent computer science fundamentals and problem solving.
• Experience with Java, Python/Ruby & Go.
• Experience running and maintaining large Postgres servers.
• Familiarity with cloud networking (VPCs, PrivateLink, Peering, etc).
• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams and strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop orchestration layer/ control-plane of large scale databases.
• Collaborate with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs.
• Build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Tune Postgres to operate at scale for very large datasets.
• Secure and protect customer data across the stack.

Skills

Distributed systems

Multi-threading

Memory management

Networking

CS fundamentals

Excellent communication

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Python

Ruby

Go

PostgreSQL

Cloud networking

Job description

parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k), retirement plan

Sep 26, 2026

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.

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $236,000 - $339,250.
• 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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