Senior Software Engineer- Postgres
200k – 288kMenlo Park, CAOnsite7+ YOE
Summary
Develop Postgres extensions and engine features for Snowflake's OLTP service, optimizing performance and integrating with data platform. Requires 7+ years experience with Postgres internals, C fluency, and strong database fundamentals.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Explore new database technologies and innovate to bring new capabilities to Postgres
- Design and develop Postgres extensions to bring differentiating features to Snowflake
- Identify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, and data movement algorithms to deliver industry-leading performance
- Deal with a broad set of (distributed) systems challenges from protocol design and fault-tolerance to resource management and parallel execution
- Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks and solve them
- Pinpoint problems, build instrumentation (as needed), and deliver solutions
- Own the end to end delivery of projects from identifying a solution, to designing, implementation, testing, and safe production rollout
- Contribute to architectural design, review other engineers’ work and mentor
- Communicate and collaborate with different product groups across different time zones
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (or equivalent learning experience)
- 7+ years of software engineering experience in high performance mission critical software
- Experience with Postgres internals and its extension framework
- Strong CS and database fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures and algorithms, SQL, distributed systems
- Fluency in C preferred
- Motivation to push outside of comfort zone, learn and deliver innovative solutions
- Track record of working in high velocity engineering teams and delivering products to market
Skills
PostgresCSQLdistributed systemsdata structuresalgorithmsquery optimizationtransaction managementPostgres extensionsdatabase internals
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