Snowflake
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SoftwareEngineer-SnowflakePostgres
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“Software Engineer - Snowflake Postgres at Snowflake. Skills: backend services, control plane, user model, distributed systems, database infrastructure, security, operational excellence, Postgres. 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 You'll Achieve.
deliver simple customer experiences on top of complex infrastructure; improve resilience and reduce operational burden; raise the engineering bar across the team; shape how customers create, manage, and secure Postgres inside Snowflake
Industry & Context.
solve problems and accelerate your impact; Tackle a mix of product engineering, infrastructure, reliability, and security problems
participate in on-call
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2+ years of experience building production software in backend, infrastructure, or distributed systems environments, programming skills in one or more of Java, Go, C++, or Python, 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
Nice to Have
Experience with PostgreSQL, database internals, or managed database platforms, Experience with identity, authorization, RBAC, or other security-sensitive systems, Experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, Experience with workflow orchestration, control plane systems, or highly asynchronous service architectures
What You'll Do.
Design and build backend services that power provisioning
and configuration of Snowflake Postgres instances
Develop features in the access and user model
including authorization
secure administration flows
and customer-facing management capabilities
Improve the reliability
and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems that keep the service healthy
Investigate production issues
participate in on-call
and drive fixes that improve resilience and reduce operational burden
Contribute to technical design
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver simple customer experiences on top of complex infrastructure; Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring while helping raise the engineering bar across the team; Join a collaborative team with meaningful ownership, technical challenges, and room to grow
Full Job Description
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 and user model that power how customers provision, manage, secure, and operate Postgres in Snowflake. You will work on core backend systems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems, database infrastructure, security, and operational excellence. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - 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. - Improve the reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems that keep the service healthy. - Partner with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver simple customer experiences on top of complex infrastructure. - Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and drive fixes that improve resilience and reduce operational burden. - Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring while helping raise the engineering bar across the team. OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE: - 2+ years of experience building production soft
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