Senior Software Engineer – Postgres

Snowflake

Postgres Engineer developing Snowflake's new Postgres service and extensions. Innovating and building differentiating technology for a multi-cloud offering.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeMenlo Park • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsPostgresSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Explore new database technologies and innovate to bring new capabilities to Postgres
Design and develop Postgres extensions to bring differentiating features to Snowflake
Identify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, and data movement algorithms to deliver industry-leading performance
Deal with a broad set of (distributed) systems challenges from protocol design and fault-tolerance to resource management and parallel execution
Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks and solve them
Pinpoint problems, build instrumentation (as needed), and deliver solutions
Own the end to end delivery of projects from identifying a solution, to designing, implementation, testing, and safe production rollout
Contribute to architectural design, review other engineers’ work and mentor
Communicate and collaborate with different product groups across different time zones

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent learning experience)
7+ years of software engineering experience in high performance mission critical software
Experience with Postgres internals and its extension framework
Strong CS and database fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures and algorithms, SQL, distributed systems (Fluency in C/C++ preferred)
Motivation to push outside of comfort zone, learn and deliver innovative solutions
Track record of working in high velocity engineering teams and delivering products to market

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

PostgresPostgres extensionsquery optimizationtransaction managementdata movement algorithmsCC++SQLdata structuresalgorithms

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationmentoringinnovationmotivationleadershipproject ownershipadaptabilityteamwork

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s Degree in Engineering