Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane

The role

You will develop the orchestration layer and control-plane of large scale databases. You will work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs to build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.

What you will do

• 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
• Invent at various layers of the software stack

Required 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

Nice to have

• 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

About the company

Snowflake is building a world class OLTP service on Postgres. The company is growing fast and scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.