Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on a trusted, scalable AI Data Cloud—eliminating silos and accelerating innovation. Backed by Sequoia.
About the role
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.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
The Snowflake Postgres team is building a managed Postgres experience inside Snowflake. This role is focused on the control plane, where you have the opportunity to work on both on distributed systems at scale and also to work on research grade optimizations at various layers of the software stack including but not limited to provisioning, managing, securing, and operating Postgres in Snowflake . You will work on core backend systems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems,...
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