Snowflake
Software Engineer- Postgres
About this role
Snowflake is seeking a backend software engineer to build the control plane and user management systems for their managed Postgres offering. You'll design and operate core services handling provisioning, lifecycle management, access control, and operational reliability for a strategic product expansion into transactional database workloads.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend services for provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of Snowflake Postgres instances
- Develop access control and user model features including authorization, secure administration, and management capabilities
- Improve reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems
- Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and drive resilience improvements
- Partner with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing experiences
- Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring across the team
What they're looking for
- Backend or distributed systems development in Java, Go, C++, or Python
- Computer science fundamentals: concurrency, networking, APIs, and data structures
- Production service design, debugging, monitoring, and incident response
- PostgreSQL or database internals knowledge
- Identity, authorization, and RBAC systems experience
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Workflow orchestration and control plane systems
- Cross-functional collaboration with product and security teams
Benefits
- Work on strategic product expansion into transactional and operational database workloads
- Meaningful ownership of systems that directly impact customer experience
- Mix of product engineering, infrastructure, reliability, and security challenges
- Collaborative team environment with strong technical growth opportunities
- Access to Snowflake's comprehensive benefits package
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Snowflake
Snowflake builds a cloud data platform with marketplace capabilities, analytics infrastructure, and AI-powered data solutions, supported by robust security and streaming systems. The company is hiring full-stack engineers, analytics engineers, solution engineers, security-focused software engineers, and principal engineers to enhance its platform and infrastructure.
- Website
- snowflake.com
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a production backend system you've built from scratch—how did you approach reliability and observability?
- Describe your experience with asynchronous workflows or background job systems. How have you debugged issues in production?