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Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FOUNDATIONDB 
United States, Washington, Bellevue 
332050304

19.11.2024
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER ON THIS TEAM, YOU WILL:
  • Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements

  • Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, test and safe production rollout

  • Design and implement critical high performance systems to handle the ever growing request rate of our database

  • Build the next generation transaction system, caching, storage engine and multi tenant capabilities

  • Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture.

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

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

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
  • 8+ years hands-on software engineering experience.

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

  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or web services

  • Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. a plus.

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

  • Track record of delivering highly complex projects in the distributed systems space

  • Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better

  • Strong technical problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills

  • Excitement by the challenge of hard technical problems

  • BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

About FoundationDB:

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

  • The estimated base salary range for this role is $187,000 - $276,000.
  • Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.