Backend Software Engineer (PostgreSQL)

Location: Menlo Park, California, or Bellevue, Washington, United States

Salary: $160,000–$230,000 per year, plus equity

Company

Snowflake is expanding its data platform with a managed Postgres experience for transactional and operational database workloads.

What you will do

• Design and build backend services for provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of Snowflake Postgres instances.
• Develop authorization, secure administration flows, and customer-facing management capabilities.
• Improve the reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems.
• Collaborate with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver customer experiences on complex infrastructure.
• Investigate production issues, participate in on-call rotations, and improve service resilience.
• Contribute to technical design, code reviews, mentoring, and engineering standards.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience building production software in backend, infrastructure, or distributed-systems environments.
• Strong programming skills in one or more of Java, Go, C++, or Python.
• Strong computer science fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, APIs, and data structures.
• Experience designing and operating reliable production services, including debugging, monitoring, and incident response.
• Experience collaborating across product, security, and engineering boundaries.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with PostgreSQL, database internals, or managed database platforms.
• Experience with identity, authorization, RBAC, or other security-sensitive systems.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with workflow orchestration, control-plane systems, or highly asynchronous service architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a strategic product area spanning transactional and operational database workloads.
• Build systems that shape how customers create, manage, and secure Postgres inside Snowflake.
• Combine product engineering, infrastructure, reliability, and security challenges.
• Join a collaborative team with meaningful ownership, strong technical challenges, and opportunities to grow.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.