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Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-WA-Bellevue, US-CA-Menlo Park$236k - $339.3kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Postgres Engineer to build the Postgres-based OLTP control plane service at Snowflake, focusing on large-scale distributed systems, high availability, security, and performance optimizations across multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Develop orchestration layer/ control-plane of large scale databases
  • Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs
  • Build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
  • Tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest datasets in the world
  • Secure and ensure customer data is protected
  • Work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry and help redefine the space by inventing at various layers of the software stack — from broad distributed systems to low-level optimizations that fundamentally change the performance characteristics of the system to cater to our customer needs.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years industry experience designing, building and developing large scale systems in production
  • Experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available, fault tolerant services
  • Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale
  • Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills
  • Experience with Java, Python/Ruby & Go
  • Experience running & maintaining large Postgres servers
  • Familiarity with cloud networking (VPCs, PrivateLink, Peering, etc)
  • Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Skills

Required:Large-scale system design and developmentPostgreSQL administration and tuningDistributed systemsProgramming languagesCommunication
Nice to have:Cloud networking

Benefits

  • Offers Equity
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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