Software Engineer - Database Engineering

What this role involves

Snowflake is hiring a Software Engineer for its Database Engineering team to design and develop a petabyte-scale cloud database. The role requires 2+ years of industry experience, fluency in Java or C++, and strong CS fundamentals. The position is onsite in Menlo Park, Bellevue, or Berlin.

Skills this posting asks for

• java
• c++
• linux
• multi-threading
• concurrency
• sql
• query optimization
• query execution
• compiler design
• distributed systems
• foundationdb
• rocksdb
• innodb
• berkeleydb
• mysql
• postgresql
• data warehouse
• hadoop
• spark
• transactions
• consistency models
• database replication
• hdfs
• cassandra

Requirements

• 2 years of experience
• Level: mid
• Remote policy: onsite

From the employer’s posting

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 collabor…