Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at the intersection of two durable SaaS trends: managed cloud databases and the shift from analytics-first platforms toward full-spectrum data services. Building an OLTP Postgres offering inside a mature cloud data company signals work that is productised, multi-tenant, and designed for broad customer adoption rather than bespoke deployments. The emphasis on multi-cloud APIs and orchestration reflects the operational reality of modern SaaS infrastructure.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the scope provides repeated exposure to the problems that differentiate successful platform services: reliability engineering, high availability and disaster recovery, security controls, and performance tuning under real customer load. Experience operating database services at scale tends to transfer well across SaaS businesses that run stateful workloads, whether in data platforms, developer tooling, or infrastructure products.
This role is best suited to engineers who like owning production outcomes end to end, including on-call and operational automation, and who are comfortable working close to cloud primitives. It will appeal to senior builders who prefer deep systems work, pragmatic trade-offs, and clear service-level thinking over feature-only application development.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. 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. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Senior Software Engineer - Snowflake Postgres
Snowflake started with a clear vision: make modern data warehousing effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Because traditional on-premise and cloud solutions struggle with this, Snowflake developed an innovative product with a new, built-for-the-cloud architecture that combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional OLAP solutions. To complement this world class OLAP service, Snowflake is now building a world class OLTP service on Postgres.
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.
AS A SENIOR POSTGRES ENGINEER YOU WILL:
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
OUR IDEAL SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER WILL HAVE:
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 Postgres servers
Familiarity with cloud networking (VPCs, PrivateLink, Peering, etc)
Experience working with remote, geographically distributed teams
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
THE FOLLOWING ARE CONSIDERED A PLUS:
Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science
Deep, expert knowledge of Postgres (WAL, extensions, configuration, replication, etc)
Experience designing and implementing large systems for public or private clouds
FedRAMP and DoD deployment experience
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
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