Leads architecture and development of a cloud-native, fully managed Postgres service at Snowflake, pushing performance and scale boundaries while ensuring reliability and integration with Snowflake's data platform. Requires 10+ years in distributed systems and deep Postgres expertise.
264k – 380k/yr
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About the role
Responsibilities
Serve as the technical leader on critical, cross-functional projects.
Break down problems and build consensus for scalable, tractable solutions.
Build the roadmap while delivering it, balancing long-term and immediate needs.
Understand trade-offs in consistency, performance, scaling, and costs.
Ensure operational readiness for durability, availability, performance, and security.
Solve business needs at large scale using software engineering and analytical skills.
Requirements
10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems, databases, or cloud services.
Appreciation of Postgres; experience as user or administrator with solid database fundamentals.
Strong systems programming experience (Ruby a strong plus).
Experience with high-availability, multi-tenant, or highly distributed data systems.
Comfortable with large, complex codebases and leading cross-team architecture.
Track record of driving projects from concept to production with impact.
Excellent communication and influence across engineering and product.
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