# Senior Software Engineer - Snowflake Postgres
**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $200K-$288K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Postgres, Ruby, Go, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Cloud Networking
**Posted:** 2026-05-11
> Build and scale a multi-cloud Postgres OLTP service at Snowflake, orchestrating databases with Ruby, integrating with major cloud APIs, and ensuring high availability for massive datasets. Requires 7+ years experience with distributed systems, Postgres, Ruby/Go, and cloud infrastructure.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Orchestrate Postgres databases via a Ruby application
- Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs
- Participate in an on-call rotation for database operations
- Build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
- Tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest datasets in the world
- Secure and ensure customer data is protected

## Requirements
- 7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
- Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault tolerant services
- Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale
- Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills
- Experience with Ruby & Go
- Experience running & maintaining large Postgres servers
- Familiarity with cloud networking (VPCs, PrivateLink, Peering, etc)
- Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

## Nice-to-haves
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science
- Deep, expert knowledge of Postgres (WAL, extensions, configuration, replication, etc)
- Experience designing and implementing large systems for public or private clouds
- FedRAMP and DoD deployment experience
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