Snowflake · 1 week ago
Principal Software Engineer - PostgreSQL
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$264K/yr - $380K/yr
10+ years expSnowflake is a company focused on empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential through innovation and collaboration. The Principal Software Engineer will lead the architecture and development of a fully managed, cloud-native Postgres service, ensuring operational readiness and solving large-scale business needs.
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Responsibilities
Serve as the technical leader on our most critical, cross-functional projects
Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties to reach solutions that are scalable, tractable, and timely
Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder by building the roadmap while delivering it
Leverage your experience to balance long-term thinking with more immediate business needs
Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability, performance, and security
Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
Qualification
Required
10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, databases, or cloud services
Appreciation of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals
Strong systems programming experience (Ruby experience a strong plus)
Experience building high-availability, multi-tenant, or highly distributed data systems
Comfortable navigating large, complex codebases and leading cross-team architecture efforts
A track record of driving projects from concept to production with measurable impact
Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across engineering and product organizations
Passion for making Postgres better, simpler, and more powerful for developers everywhere
Benefits
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
Other company benefits
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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