Software Engineer- Postgres
Top focus
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 collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.
We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
The Snowflake Postgres team is building a managed Postgres experience inside Snowflake. This role is focused on the control plane and user model that power how customers provision, manage, secure, and operate Postgres in Snowflake . You will work on core backend systems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems, database infrastructure, security, and operational excellence
In This Role, You Will
- Design and build backend services that power provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of Snowflake Postgres instances.
- Develop features in the access and user model, including authorization, secure administration flows, and customer-facing management capabilities.
- Improve the reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems that keep the service healthy.
- Partner with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver simple customer experiences on top of complex infrastructure.
- Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and drive fixes that improve resilience and reduce operational burden.
- Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring while helping raise the engineering bar across the team.
- Our ideal candidate will have: 2+ years of experience building production software in backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems environments.
- Strong programming skills in one or more of Java, Go, C++, or Python.
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, APIs, and data structures.
- Experience designing and operating reliable services in production, including debugging, monitoring, and incident response.
- Experience working across technical boundaries with product, security, and other engineering teams.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Nice To Have
- Experience with PostgreSQL, database internals, or managed database platforms.
- Experience with identity, authorization, RBAC, or other security-sensitive systems.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with workflow orchestration, control plane systems, or highly asynchronous service architectures.
- Work on a strategic product area that expands Snowflake into transactional and operational database workloads Build systems that directly shape how customers create, manage
- secure Postgres inside Snowflake Tackle a mix of product engineering, infrastructure, reliability
- Join a collaborative team with meaningful ownership, strong technical challenges
- room to grow Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
- Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
- It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
- Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth.
- We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
- How do you want to make your impact?
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