Snowflake

Snowflake

Principal Software Engineer 2 - OLTP

US-CA-Menlo Park · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago
C++Distributed SystemsPostgreSQLSnowflakeCloud PlatformsSystems EngineeringLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

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About the role

  • 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.
  • At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term technical architecture for OLTP across Snowflake Postgres, Unistore and the infrastructure they depend on.
  • Lead major architectural decisions across transactions, storage, concurrency control, replication, recovery, query execution and database scalability.
  • Build database primitives for agent-driven workloads, including fast creation of isolated transactional environments, checkpointing and rollback, and efficient lifecycle management.
  • Determine where PostgreSQL architecture and compatibility provide leverage and where alternative approaches can deliver meaningful advantages.
  • Design for workloads where databases and transactional environments are created and operated programmatically at machine speed rather than primarily through human administration.
  • Lead complex, cross-organizational engineering efforts and establish technical direction across multiple teams.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience building databases, distributed systems, storage systems or large-scale cloud infrastructure, with sustained impact at significant technical scope.
  • Deep expertise in OLTP and database systems, including areas such as transactions, concurrency control, storage engines, indexing, query processing, replication, recovery and high availability.
  • Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure for low-latency stateful systems, including compute, storage, networking, resource isolation and failure handling.
  • Experience designing highly elastic, multi-tenant, or rapidly provisioned stateful systems where isolation and efficient lifecycle management are first-class concerns.
  • Experience making difficult architectural tradeoffs across latency, throughput, consistency, availability, durability, scalability, isolation and cost.
  • A track record of taking technically ambitious systems from architecture through production at meaningful scale.
  • Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams or a broad product area.
  • Strong systems engineering instincts and the ability to work across abstractions, from database internals to distributed infrastructure.

Nice to have

  • Strong systems programming experience
  • C, C++, or Rust experience is a plus.

Skills

  • PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER 2 - OLTP

Compensation

  • For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com

Company info

  • At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
  • Across Snowflake Postgres and Unistore, we are combining the performance, reliability and developer experience expected from modern operational databases with Snowflake's cloud-native architecture and governed data platform.
  • Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
  • Work closely with product leaders, senior engineering leadership, and strategic customers on the most important technical and product decisions.
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