Snowflake · 1 month ago
Staff Software Engineer - Database Engineering
US-CA-Menlo Park
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$236K/yr - $295K/yr
10+ years expSnowflake is a company focused on empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential through innovation and collaboration. The Staff Software Engineer in Database Engineering will be responsible for enhancing the core query engine and developing next-generation query language improvements to optimize customer experiences on the Snowflake Data Cloud.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareSoftware
Responsibilities
Identify and implement novel advancements to Snowflake’s core query language, scripting and timeseries offerings
Work back from customer and developer needs to build the next-generation query language improvements
Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
Design, develop and support highly parallel and fault tolerant database system features all the while optimizing for high performance
Create architecture and design, influence our product roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects
Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure
Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions
Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions
Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, testing and safe production rollout
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability and performance
Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture
Mentor and grow junior engineers
Qualification
Required
10+ years of industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale distributed services
Significant background in database internals or building core components (query language, query compilation, query execution, storage engines, transaction processing) for large-scale data processing systems (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Presto, etc.)
Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems (Fluency in C++, C, or Java preferred)
Expertise in systems fundamentals including multi-threading, concurrency, IO subsystems and scheduling
Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance, and schema design
Strong communication, and collaboration skills
Track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems
Ability to work effectively across engineering teams in multiple locations
Preferred
Masters or PhD is preferred
Company
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.03BKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalICONIQ GrowthAltimeter Capital
2022-04-19Post Ipo Equity· $621.46M
2020-09-16IPO
2020-02-07Series G· $479M
Leadership Team
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Chief Executive Officer
Benoit Dageville
Snowflake Co-founder, President of Product
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