Senior Software Engineer – Snowflake, Postgres Control Plane

Snowflake

Senior Postgres Engineer building Snowflake's new multi-cloud Postgres service. Developing orchestration layers, ensuring high availability, and securing customer data.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeMenlo Park • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $287,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaPostgresPythonRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PostgresJavaPythonRubyGocloud networkinghigh availabilitydisaster recoverydistributed systemsfault tolerant services

Soft Skills

communicationteam collaborationproblem solvingcritical thinkingadaptabilityleadershiporganizational skillsinterpersonal skillsattention to detailtime management