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Senior Software Engineer - Foundation DB

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-CA-Menlo Park$200k - $287kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer position focused on FoundationDB (FDB) within Snowflake. Responsible for building and scaling large-scale distributed database components (transaction system, caching, storage engine, multi-tenant capabilities) to support Snowflake’s data cloud. Emphasis on high performance, reliability, and evolving core architecture to meet growing workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements
  • Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, test and safe production rollout
  • Design and implement critical high performance systems to handle the ever growing request rate of our database
  • Build the next generation transaction system, caching, storage engine and multi tenant capabilities
  • Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture.
  • Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
  • Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years hands-on software engineering experience
  • Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++, C, or Java is preferred
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or web services
  • Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. a plus
  • Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
  • Track record of delivering highly complex projects in the distributed systems space
  • Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better
  • Strong technical problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills
  • Excitement by the challenge of hard technical problems
  • BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred

Benefits

  • Offers Equity
  • Compensation: $200K – $287K
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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