Software Engineer – Snowflake, Postgres

Snowflake

Software Engineer building managed Postgres experience inside Snowflake. Collaborating on distributed systems, database infrastructure, and building core backend services.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeMenlo Park • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $160,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ 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.
Nice to have: Experience with PostgreSQL, database internals, or managed database platforms.
Nice to have: Experience with identity, authorization, RBAC, or other security-sensitive systems.
Nice to have: Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Nice to have: Experience with workflow orchestration, control plane systems, or highly asynchronous service architectures.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Work on a strategic product area that expands Snowflake into transactional and operational database workloads.
Build systems that directly shape how customers create, manage, and secure Postgres inside Snowflake.
Tackle a mix of product engineering, infrastructure, reliability, and security problems.
Join a collaborative team with meaningful ownership, strong technical challenges, and room to grow.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaGoC++PythonPostgreSQLdebuggingmonitoringincident responseworkflow orchestrationasynchronous service architectures

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationtechnical design

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer ScienceEngineering degree