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Staff Software Engineer - Unistore

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (US-CA-Menlo Park)$236k - $339.3kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to join Snowflake's Unistore team, building a unified hybrid data platform (Hybrid Tables) that combines transactional and analytical workloads. Focus on performance, scalability, and service infrastructure for a petabyte-scale cloud database system with ACID guarantees and real-time analytics.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in the development of a unique distributed database system combining high scalability and performance with rich ACID transactions.
  • Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements.
  • Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms to maintain Snowflake's industry-leading data warehousing capabilities.
  • Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system, ensuring it is highly parallel and fault-tolerant.
  • Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud.
  • Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout.
  • Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance.
  • Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies.
  • Develop tools to provide customers with greater insight into their workloads.
  • Evangelize best practices for database usage and end-to-end system architecture.
  • Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers on the team.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
  • Strong fluency in C++ or Java.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
  • Strong systems programming skills, including experience with multi-threading and concurrency.
  • A solid foundation in distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, scaling, failure recovery).
  • Experience with implementation testing, debugging, and documentation, specifically within a Linux development environment.
  • BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

Skills

Required:Programming in C++ or JavaDistributed systemsPerformance optimizationLinux development

Benefits

  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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