Senior Software Engineer - Foundation DB
US-CA-Menlo Park · 6+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- US-CA-Menlo Park
About Snowflake
- Snowflake SIGMOD 2016 paper https://www.snowflake.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Snowflake_SIGMOD.pdf
About the role
- Snowflake is seeking an outstanding Senior Software Engineer with a passion for large scale databases and distributed systems to help take FoundationDB to the next level.
- The role involves scaling FoundationDB by at least one order of magnitude over the next few years and innovating to re-architect core system components for emerging workloads.
Responsibilities
- Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements
- Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, test and safe production rollout
- Design and implement critical high performance systems to handle the ever growing request rate of our database
- Build the next generation transaction system, caching, storage engine and multi tenant capabilities
- Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture
- Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
- Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions
Requirements
- 6+ years hands-on software engineering experience
- Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or web services
- Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- Track record of delivering highly complex projects in the distributed systems space
- Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better
- Strong technical problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Excitement by the challenge of hard technical problems
- BS in Computer Science
Preferred qualifications
- Fluency in C++, C, or Java
- Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.
- Masters or PhD in Computer Science
Skills
- C++
- C
- Java
- FoundationDB
- RocksDB
- LevelDB
- DynamoDB
- Redis
