Senior Software Engineer (Distributed Data Systems)

Location: Berlin, Germany

Company

Snowflake develops a data platform that enables customers to transform data with declarative SQL while controlling cost, latency, and throughput.

What you will do

• Define capabilities and technical designs for the Dynamic Tables platform with engineers and Product Managers.
• Interact with enterprise customers to understand needs and translate them into product and technical roadmaps.
• Drive new capabilities and performance improvements from inception through delivery.
• Build reliable, high-performance software for large-scale enterprise workloads.
• Analyze and solve performance, correctness, and fault-tolerance challenges at scale.
• Ensure operational readiness and meet reliability, availability, and performance commitments.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing and building distributed data systems.
• 3+ years of experience with query compiler internals.
• Experience building enterprise-grade, reliable, and trustworthy software or services.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, relational algebra, or SQL, together with excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong English communication skills.

Nice to have

• Direct interaction with enterprise customers.
• Experience with incremental view maintenance or materialized views.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with a globally distributed engineering team.
• Experimental, fast-moving environment focused on challenging ordinary thinking and accelerating innovation.
• Opportunities to mentor others and learn from colleagues.