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Senior Software Engineer - ManagedDB

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (US-CA-Menlo Park)Full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to join the ManagedDB Team at Snowflake, focusing on architecting, scaling, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency database systems across multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Architect & Scale: Lead the technical vision, design, and implementation of database products to suit internal needs.
  • Drive Multi-Cloud Strategy: Create elegant, cloud-agnostic abstractions and software infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP to ensure seamless management and rapid feature delivery.
  • Technical Leadership: Drive complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives from inception to production, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, and establishing software engineering best practices.
  • Ensure High Availability & Security: Continuously harden our database infrastructure meet SLAs around uptime, security, and durability.
  • Production Excellence: Participate in an on-call rotation, lead incident investigations for complex production issues, and direct blameless post-mortems to drive permanent systemic improvements.
  • Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with Security, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to support new product capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

  • US Citizenship or Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) required.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent professional experience).
  • 7–12 years of professional experience designing, building, operating, and scaling large-scale backend distributed systems in high-growth production environments.
  • Understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) and experience running large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong hands-on coding experience in Go, Java, C++, or Rust.
  • Extensive experience architecting infrastructure on major public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including cloud networking constructs.
  • Proficient in automating global fleet deployment and configuration using Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
  • Proven track record of technical ownership, breaking down ambiguous problems into concrete roadmaps, and delivering high-impact projects across multiple engineering teams.

Skills

Required:Database systems design and scalingGo, Java, C++, or RustPublic cloud architecture (AWS, GCP, Azure)Infrastructure as Code & Automation (Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, CloudFormation)Leadership & technical ownership
Last updated Sep 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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