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Snowflake SOFTWARE ENGINEER - DATABASE SEARCH 
Germany, Berlin, Berlin 
707233491

02.07.2024
AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
  • Identify and implement novel ideas on indexing methods, index maintenance, index selection, and query optimization techniques which allow Snowflake to provide industry-leading data warehousing capabilities.
  • 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, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system comprising many technologies.
  • 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.
OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
  • 2+ 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.
  • BSc in Computer Science or a related field; Master's or PhD preferred.
  • Fluent in English.