Senior Software Engineer- Postgres

About Snowflake

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.

Role Overview

Join us as a Postgres Engine and Extensions Engineer and contribute to the development of Snowflake's new Postgres service. This is a unique opportunity to innovate and build differentiating technology for a large, multi-cloud Postgres offering, bringing cutting edge Postgres capabilities to millions of Snowflake users. Our team includes some of the most experienced Postgres extension engineers worldwide. Much of your work will be open source and visible to the Postgres as well as Apache Iceberg communities.

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

Qualifications

• 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/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