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Staff Software Engineer - FDB Platform

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

About the role

Staff Software Engineer role focused on the FDB platform, a large-scale distributed transactional key-value store powering Snowflake’s data cloud. Responsibilities include designing and implementing scalable distributed systems, ensuring fault tolerance, end-to-end project ownership, and advancing the next-generation transaction system, caching, storage engine, and multi-tenant capabilities for a cloud-agnostic platform.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable distributed system solutions for our cloud agnostic platform.
  • Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
  • Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, test and safe production rollout
  • Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
  • Build the next generation transaction system, caching, storage engine and multi tenant capabilities
  • Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture.
  • Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems infrastructure supporting stateful services.
  • Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
  • Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
  • Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in Java
  • Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms
  • Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. a plus.
  • Track record of delivering highly complex projects in the distributed systems space
  • Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better
  • Experience with one or more of the following highly desired: Big Data storage technologies and their applications (HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.), Scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra, etc.
  • BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designFault tolerance and high availabilityEnd-to-end project ownershipJavaKubernetes / container platforms

Benefits

  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
  • Compensation listed: $236,000 – $339,250
Last updated Jul 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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