Software Engineer

About Snowflake

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.

We’re hiring talented Software Engineers to join the Snowflake Query Processing team! This position is part of our engineering team to evolve our elastic, large scale, high-performance query processing engine. We need smart engineers who can pick up and understand complex technical areas quickly – and who are enthusiastic about building new technologies! The official language for this office will be English.

As a Software Engineer at Snowflake, you will:

• Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database that is high performant, highly parallel, and fault-tolerant.
• Build high-quality and highly reliable software to meet the needs of some of the largest companies on the planet.
• Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
• Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.
• Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms which allow Snowflake to provide industry leading data warehousing capabilities.
• Design and implement the new service architecture required to enable the Snowflake Data Cloud.
• Develop tools for improving our customers' insights into their workloads.

Our Ideal Software Engineer will have:

• 2+ years industry experience working on commercial or open-source software.
• Fluency in C++.
• Familiarity with development in a Linux environment.
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc.
• Experience with implementation testing, debugging and documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field; Masters or PhD preferred.
• Ability to work on-site in our Berlin office.

Bonus Points for experience with the following:

• SQL or other database technologies including internal design and implementation of database engines.
• Query optimization, query execution, compiler design and implementation.
• Large scale distributed systems, transactions and consistency models.
• Data warehouse design, database systems, and large-scale data processing solutions like Hadoop and Spark.
• Big data storage technologies and their applications, e.g., HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.

Key skills/competency

• C++
• Distributed Systems
• Query Processing
• Database Design
• SQL
• Linux
• Algorithms
• Data Structures
• Concurrency
• Cloud Database