Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services that power provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of Snowflake Postgres instances.
• Develop features in the access and user model, including authorization, secure administration flows, and customer-facing management capabilities.
• Improve the reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems that keep the service healthy.
• Partner with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver simple customer experiences on top of complex infrastructure.
• Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and drive fixes that improve resilience and reduce operational burden.
• Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring while helping raise the engineering bar across the team.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience building production software in backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems environments.
• 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 services in production, including debugging, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience working across technical boundaries with product, security, and other engineering teams.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with PostgreSQL, database internals, or managed database platforms.
• Experience with identity, authorization, RBAC, or other security-sensitive systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, control plane systems, or highly asynchronous service architectures.