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# Senior Software Engineer - Foundation DB

- **Company:** Snowflake Inc.
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $287,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Databases, Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, Software Engineering, Database Engines, System Programming, Web Services, Multithreading, Concurrency, Caching, Information Technology
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88420077/1

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.


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