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Staff Software Engineer - Database Engineering

Snowflake

Staff Software Engineer - Database Engineering is a still-open role at Snowflake on Jobrow. Location: On-site · US-CA-Menlo Park · Menlo Park · California · United States. Listed pay: $200k–$288k. Sourced from the company's public Ashby board. First seen 2 months ago; last confirmed 9 days ago. Apply on the employer ATS — Jobrow is not the employer.

Pay
$200k–$288k
Workplace
On-site
Location
US-CA-Menlo Park · Menlo Park · California · United States
First seen
2 months ago
Last seen
9 days ago
Board
Ashby

About this role

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.

  • Function: Engineering
  • Seniority: staff

Location & pay

On-site · US-CA-Menlo Park · Menlo Park · California · United States Listed pay on Jobrow: $200k–$288k.

Source

Jobrow reads the public Ashby board for Snowflake. First seen 2 months ago; last seen 9 days ago. We are not the employer — apply only on the company ATS.

Posting

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake is a high-growth, cloud-native data platform company committed to empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential. With a culture built on impact, innovation, and collaboration, we offer an environment where you can build large-scale systems, move fast, and take your technology career to the next level. We are seeking a highly talented and experienced Software Engineer to join our Database Engineering https://snowflake.phenompro.com/us/en/database-engineering team. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our core product: an elastic, large-scale, high-performance data processing system. We are looking for smart, enthusiastic engineers who can quickly master complex technical areas and are passionate about building new, industry-leading technologies. AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms to maintain Snowflake's industry-leading data warehousing capabilities. - Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system, ensuring it is highly parallel and fault-tolerant. - Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud. - Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system. - Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout. - Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting our customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance. - Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies.

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