Snowflake
Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane
$236K–$339K
US-WA-Bellevue +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 26, 2026
- Location
- US-WA-Bellevue
US-CA-Menlo Park - Experience
- 7+ years industry experience designing, building and developing large scale systems in production.
About the job
Build and operate Snowflake’s large-scale, multi-cloud Postgres service, focusing on its control plane, availability, performance, and data security.
What you'll do
- Develop the database orchestration layer and control plane; work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs.
- Build high-availability and disaster-recovery solutions, and tune Postgres for large-scale workloads.
- Secure customer data and develop systems across the software stack.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of industry experience designing, building, and developing large-scale production systems.
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available, fault-tolerant services.
- Experience with Java, Python/Ruby & Go and running and maintaining large Postgres servers.
- Understanding of operating-systems concepts and familiarity with cloud networking (VPCs, PrivateLink, Peering, etc).
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science; deep Postgres expertise.
- Experience designing systems for public or private clouds; FedRAMP and DoD deployment experience.
Pay
$236,000 – $339,250 USD base salary
Tools
Postgres, Java, Python/Ruby, Go, AWS, Azure, GCP
AI focus
The posting describes an AI-native mindset and using AI as a high-trust collaborator, but does not specify AI-related job duties.
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