Senior Software Engineer - Foundation DB

As a Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake, 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.

Our ideal Senior Software Engineer will have:

• 6+ 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.