AI Engineer - Database Engineering

Senior Software Engineer - Database Engineering

Snowflake

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 a high-growth, cloud-native data platform company committed to empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential. With a culture built on impact, innovation, and collaboration, we offer an environment where you can build large-scale systems, move fast, and take your technology career to the next level. We are seeking a highly talented and experienced Software Engineer to join our Database Engineering team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our core product: an elastic, large-scale, high-performance data processing system. We are looking for smart, enthusiastic engineers who can quickly master complex technical areas and are passionate about building new, industry-leading technologies. AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: * Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms to maintain Snowflake's industry-leading data warehousing capabilities. * Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system, ensuring it is highly parallel and fault-tolerant. * Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud. * Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system. * Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout. * Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting our customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance. * Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies. * Develop tools to provide customers with greater insight into their workloads. * Evangelize best practices for database usage and end-to-end system architecture. * Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers on the team. OUR IDEAL SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE: * 6+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software. * Strong fluency in C/C++ and/or Java * Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. * Strong systems programming skills, including experience with multi-threading and concurrency. * A solid foundation in distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, scaling, failure recovery). * Experience with implementation testing, debugging, and documentation , specifically within a Linux development environment. * Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: * Working experience in database internal design and implementation, systems programming and large scale distributed systems design and implementation * Experience with working on design, implementation and production-izing distributed key value stores like FoundationDB across multiple clouds. 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

Software Engineer - Backend

Snowflake

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. We’re at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Snowflake started with a clear vision: develop a cloud data platform that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Data Cloud allows sharing live data in governed and secure ways so our customers can solve their business problems. Data Cloud allows sharing live data in governed and secure ways so our customers can solve their business problems. Come join our world-class team as a Software Engineer to build the backend services for data cloud to help our customers to share data internally within their company or outside with external organizations. We are investing in initiatives across multiple engineering areas that include: Data Engineering & Open Lakehouse, Database Engineering, Engineering Systems, Product Experiences, Apps & Collaboration,Platform Engineering, and Public Sector, Security and Governance AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER, YOU WILL: * Design and build features, and/or distributed platforms at scale.  * Drive impactful initiatives for the globally distributed infrastructure * Collaborate with product managers, architects, other engineering teams, and business groups, to drive end-to-end solutions. * Contribute to improving our engineering processes, tooling, and standards. OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE: * 2-7 years’ of industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale systems in production. * Strong fundamental computer science skills. Knowledge of algorithms and data structures. * Fluency in Java, Python, C++, or SQL  * Deep multi-faceted appreciation in building end-to-end customer facing products. * BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience. BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE:  * Familiarity with database internals or data governance, and/or payment systems is a plus 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

Staff Software Engineer - Unistore

Snowflake

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 a high-growth, cloud-native data platform company committed to empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential. With a culture built on impact, innovation, and collaboration, we offer an environment where you can build large-scale systems, move fast, and take your technology career to the next level. We are seeking a highly talented and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the Unistore team in our Database Engineering org. The Unistore team is building a unified hybrid data platform that dissolves the boundaries between operational and analytical workloads. Our core product, Hybrid Tables, enables enterprises to manage both transactional and analytical data in a single place. By eliminating the need to move data between separate operational databases and analytical warehouses, we simplify architectures, reduce ETL complexity, and unlock high-performance, real-time application serving—all while maintaining Snowflake's industry-leading scale, performance, and ACID compliance. Joining this team means architecting the performance, scalability, and service infrastructure that will empower the world's largest enterprises to seamlessly govern their transactional and analytical data in one place. If you are passionate about building industry-leading technologies that solve real-world scale and performance problems, this is the place to be. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our core product: an elastic, large-scale, high-performance data processing system. We are looking for smart, enthusiastic engineers who can quickly master complex technical areas and are passionate about building new, industry-leading technologies. AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: * Participate in the development of a unique distributed database system combining high scalability and performance with rich ACID transactions. * Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements. * Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms to maintain Snowflake's industry-leading data warehousing capabilities. * Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system, ensuring it is highly parallel and fault-tolerant. * Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud. * Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system. * Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout. * Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting our customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance. * Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies. * Develop tools to provide customers with greater insight into their workloads. * Evangelize best practices for database usage and end-to-end system architecture. * Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers on the team. OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE: * 8+ years of industry experience working on commercial or open-source software. * Strong fluency in C++ or Java. * Excellent problem-solving skills and a deep understanding of Computer Science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. * Strong systems programming skills, including experience with multi-threading and concurrency. * A solid foundation in distributed systems concepts (e.g., consistency, scaling, failure recovery). * Experience with implementation testing, debugging, and documentation, specifically within a Linux development environment. * BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.. * Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: * SQL or other database technologies including internal design and implementation. * Query optimization, query execution, compiler design and implementation. * Experience with internals of distributed key value stores like FoundationDB and storage engines like RocksDB, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB etc. * Experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL internals * Data warehouse design, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions like Hadoop and Spark. * Experience in database replication technology * Big data storage technologies and their applications, e.g., HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc. 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