At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Snowflake is now building a world class OLTP service on Postgres. We’re hiring Senior Postgres Engineers to help build the new Snowflake Postgres service. This is an exciting opportunity to help build a large, multi-cloud Postgres offering with access to an existing customer base.
AS A SENIOR POSTGRES ENGINEER YOU WILL:
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
OUR IDEAL SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
7+ years industry experience designing, building and developing large scale systems in production
Experience building and maintaining distributed, 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
THE FOLLOWING ARE CONSIDERED A PLUS:
Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science
Deep, expert knowledge of Postgres (WAL, extensions, configuration, replication, etc)
Experience designing and implementing large systems for public or private clouds
FedRAMP and DoD deployment experience
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
Skills Required
- 7+ years industry experience
- Experience building and maintaining large scale systems
- Strong understanding of operating systems concepts
- Experience with Ruby and Go
- Experience running large Postgres servers
- Excellent communication skills
Snowflake Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Snowflake and has not been reviewed or approved by Snowflake.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity grants (RSUs) and an ESPP are central to total compensation and are described as highly valuable. Feedback suggests many see equity as a major satisfaction driver with meaningful upside potential.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive and accompanied by clear communication on salary, equity, and advancement. Feedback suggests pay practices emphasize fairness and transparency.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, adoption assistance, and family planning resources are notably comprehensive. Feedback suggests these programs materially support major life events.
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What We Do
Snowflake powers the end-to-end data lifecycle – from ingesting and processing data to analyzing and modeling it, to building and sharing data and AI applications – helping engineers, analysts, and leaders innovate faster and achieve more with their data. We're on a mission to empower every enterprise to achieve its full potential through data and AI.
Why Work With Us
Snowflake is where data does more, and so do you. More innovating, more growing, and more collaborating. Here, you’ll find the sweet spot between building big and moving fast, in technology and your career.
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