• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Strong database fundamentals and meaningful contributions in the area of database internals
• Fluency in object-oriented programming and SQL semantics and optimization
• Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems (Fluency in C++, C, or Java preferred)
• Expertise in systems fundamentals including multi-threading, concurrency, IO subsystems and scheduling
• Strong communication, and collaboration skills

Desirable

• The Query Compiler team is the entry point to the Snowflake Query Engine – a cloud-only database for the modern world
• Our mission is to deliver user-facing SQL functionality and build a cost-efficient and performant query compiler platform
• This includes developing novel state-of-the-art query optimizations and query execution techniques for industry-leading performance
• It allows us to bring new applications to Snowflake, ease customer transition from legacy systems, and also improve performance for a wide range of workloads
• We’re seeking a senior engineer who has experience in the area of query processing and who can help deliver impactful projects in the area of query compilation
• You will have an opportunity to work closely with the product team, help shape our roadmap, and become part of a highly talented team
• Snowflake is growing fast and we are scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth
• We’re passionate about our people, our customers, our values, and our culture
• We are also looking for people with a growth mindset and pragmatic insight to solve for today while building for the future
• And, as a Snowflake employee, you will be accountable for supporting and enabling diversity and belonging
• Work on the design, development and support of a highly distributed and performant database system with a specific focus on the Query Compiler
• Design, develop, and support a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant database system comprising many technologies
• Deal with issues from logical representation of the execution plan to efficient resource management, all the way down to highly specialized vectorized execution
• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
• Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever growing request rate of our database
• Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, testing and safe production rollout
• Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture
• Build an industry-leading data management system that customers love
• Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
• Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars
• Learn about and contribute to:
• Robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and millions of complex queries daily
• Highly-scalable and reliable data processing platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines
• User interfaces bridging the enterprise world with the consumer experience