Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DATABASE SEARCH 

Germany, Berlin, Berlin 

903316094

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• Lead significant engineering efforts in the Database Search team.

• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.

• Develop innovative ideas, associate them with customer pain points and drive long-term product impact.

• Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and implement solutions.

• Deal with issues from logical representation of the execution plan to efficient resource management, all the way down to highly specialized vectorized execution.

• Evaluate and determine priorities with a critical understanding of where performance matters and where performance is irrelevant.

• Be a key decision-maker on technical and business issues, which significantly impact the roles and responsibilities of others.

• Mentor and coach other engineers whom you work with.

• Regularly explore uncharted territory and stay informed about business trends and emerging technologies even outside the current business. Determine how these can be leveraged to Snowflake's advantage.

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience

• Background in database internals or building core engine components for large scale data processing systems or information retrieval systems / search engines (e.g. Lucene, Solr).

• Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance, and multi-threading.

• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ and/or Java.

• Experience working with text or semi-structured data (i.e. JSON, XML, ORC, Avro, Parquet, etc.).

• BS in Computer Science or a related field; Masters or PhD preferred.