Senior Postgres Engineer, Snowflake

• 7+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
• Experience building and maintaining distributed, fault tolerant services
• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale
• Extremely strong fundamental computer science skills
• Experience with Ruby & Go
• Experience running & maintaining large Postgre servers
• Familiarity with cloud networking (VPCs, PrivateLink, Peering, etc)
• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable

• We’re hiring Senior Postgres Engineers to help build the new Snowflake Postgres service
• This is an exciting opportunity to help build a large, multi-cloud Postgres offering with access to an existing customer base
• Orchestrate Postgres databases via a Ruby application
• Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs
• Participate in an on-call rotation for database operations
• Build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
• Tune Postgres to operate at scale for some of the largest datasets in the world
• Secure and ensure customer data is protected