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# Senior Software Engineer- Postgres

- **Company:** Snowflake Inc.
- **Location:** Clyde Hill, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $287,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Communications Protocols, Databases, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Structures, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, PostgreSQL, Query Optimization, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Snowflake, Information Technology
- **Published:** May 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://seeker-sp.worksourcewa.com/jobview/GetJob.aspx?JobID=293411985

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent learning experience)
 * 7+ years of software engineering experience in high performance mission critical software
 * Experience with Postgres internals and its extension framework
 * Strong CS and database fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures and algorithms, SQL, distributed systems (Fluency in C/C++ preferred)
 * Motivation to push outside of comfort zone, learn and deliver innovative solutions
 * Track record of working in high velocity engineering teams and delivering products to market

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.

## Description

* Explore new database technologies and innovate to bring new capabilities to Postgres
 * Design and develop Postgres extensions to bring differentiating features to Snowflake
 * Identify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, and data movement algorithms to deliver industry-leading performance
 * Deal with a broad set of (distributed) systems challenges from protocol design and fault-tolerance to resource management and parallel execution
 * Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks and solve them
 * Pinpoint problems, build instrumentation (as needed), and deliver solutions
 * Own the end to end delivery of projects from identifying a solution, to designing, implementation, testing, and safe production rollout
 * Contribute to architectural design, review other engineers' work and mentor
 * Communicate and collaborate with different product groups across different time zones


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