Snowflake SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - FDB PERFORMANCE 

United States, California 

729039484

AS A PERFORMANCE ENGINEER ON THIS TEAM, YOU WILL:

• Analyze FDB performance and scalability, identify bottlenecks, and recommend and develop improvements in FDB.

• Analyze production workloads, and develop synthetic workloads, chaos workloads and benchmarks.

• Develop tools to profile performance at runtime e.g. perf, eBPF, kernel tracing, flame graphs.

• Explore new execution hardware and new cluster configurations that improve the overall resource efficiency of the system.

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

• Participate in the design and implementation of next generation systems.

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 8+ years hands-on software engineering experience.

• BS/MS/PhD in computer science (or equivalent)

• Expertise in identifying and analyzing performance bottlenecks

• Solid understanding of OS and systems concepts like process management, concurrency, memory management, IO patterns, file systems, block storage devices, etc.

• Work experience in cloud environments like AWS, Azure, GCP

• Ability to work effectively both autonomously and in teams

• Strong technical problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills

• Excitement by the challenge of hard technical problems

• Intense curiosity and willingness to question

BONUS POINTS:

• Familiarity with C++

• Good working knowledge of Linux / Unix OSes

• Have worked on performance analysis for databases

• Knowledge of NoSQL, SQL databases and database storage engines

• Understanding of relational database concepts and SQL

• Experience with continuous integration and automation frameworks e.g. Jenkins, Kubernetes etc.

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $187,000 - $252,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.