• Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database that is highly parallel and fault-tolerant
• Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of some of the largest companies on the planet
• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
• Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions
• Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms which allow Snowflake to provide industry leading data warehousing capabilities
• Design and implement the new service architecture required to enable the Snowflake Data Cloud

Develop tools for improving our customers' insights into their workloads

• We need smart engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly – and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies!
• 2+ years industry experience working on commercial or open-source software
• Fluency in Java or C++
• Familiarity with development in a Linux environment
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc
• Experience with implementation testing, debugging and documentation
• Ability to work on-site in our Menlo Park / Bellevue / Berlin office
• SQL or other database technologies including internal design and implementation
• Query optimization, query execution, compiler design and implementation
• Experience with internals of distributed key value stores like FoundationDB and storage engines like RocksDB, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB etc
• Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL internals
• Data warehouse design, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions like Hadoop and Spark
• Large scale distributed systems, transactions and consistency models

Experience in database replication technology

Big data storage technologies and their applications, e.g., HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc

• 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