Snowflake
Software Engineer - Postgres
$160K–$230K
US-CA-Menlo Park +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Location
- US-CA-Menlo Park
US-WA-Bellevue - Experience
- 2+ years of experience building production software in backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems environments.
- Education
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build control-plane backend systems for provisioning, managing, securing, and operating managed Postgres within Snowflake.
What you'll do
- Design backend services for Postgres provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration.
- Develop access and user-model features, and improve reliability and observability of asynchronous systems.
- Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and contribute to design, reviews, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- 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 production services, including debugging, monitoring, and incident response.
- Experience working across technical boundaries with product, security, and engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with PostgreSQL, database internals, or managed database platforms.
- Experience with identity, authorization, RBAC, cloud infrastructure, or workflow orchestration.
Pay
$160K – $230K (base salary); equity amount not stated
Tools
Java, Go, C++, Python, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure, GCP
AI focus
The company seeks AI-native thinkers who use AI as a high-trust collaborator and experiment with emerging capabilities; no specific AI product development duties are stated.
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