Software Engineer - Database Engineering

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 hiring talented Software Engineers to join the Snowflake Database Engineering https://snowflake.phenompro.com/us/en/database-engineering team! In this role you will work directly with our team to evolve our elastic, large scale, high-performance data processing system. We need smart engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly – and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies! AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database that is highly parallel and fault-tolerant. - Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of some of the largest companies on the planet. - Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them. - Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions. - Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms which allow Snowflake to provide industry leading data warehousing capabilities. - Design and implement the new service architecture required to enable the Snowflake Data Cloud - Develop tools for improving our customers' insights into their workloads. OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE: - 2+ years industry experience working on commercial or open-source software. - Fluency in Java or C++. - Familiarity with development in a Linux environment. - Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. - Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. - Experience with implementation testing, debugging and documentation. - Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field; Masters or PhD preferred. - Ability to work on-site in our Menlo Park / Bellevue / Berlin office. 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. -…