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Software Engineer - Postgres

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-CA-Menlo Park, US-WA-Bellevue$160k - $230kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Backend-focused role building a managed Postgres experience inside Snowflake, with emphasis on provisioning, lifecycle management, security, and operability of Postgres in Snowflake.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend services that power provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of Snowflake Postgres instances.
  • Develop features in the access and user model, including authorization, secure administration flows, and customer-facing management capabilities.
  • Improve the reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems that keep the service healthy.
  • Partner with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver simple customer experiences on top of complex infrastructure.
  • Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and drive fixes that improve resilience and reduce operational burden.
  • Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring while helping raise the engineering bar across the team.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience building production software in backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems environments.
  • Strong programming skills in one or more of Java, Go, C++, or Python.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, APIs, and data structures.
  • Experience designing and operating reliable services in production, including debugging, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Experience working across technical boundaries with product, security, and other engineering teams.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Required:Backend developmentProgramming languagesCS fundamentalsProduction services operationCross-functional collaboration
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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