# Principal Software Engineer - PostgreSQL

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $264k – $380k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Postgres, Ruby, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, Systems Programming, High-Availability Systems, Multi-Tenant Systems, Databases
**Posted:** 2025-12-19

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.
- Passion for improving Postgres for developers.

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