Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer role sits squarely in the managed-database layer of modern SaaS, where product differentiation increasingly comes from making complex infrastructure feel simple to operate. Building a managed Postgres experience inside a broader cloud data platform brings together control plane design, customer-facing administration, and the security model that governs access and tenancy. That combination is central to how SaaS vendors package reliability and governance as part of the product.
For a long-term SaaS career, the work maps closely to problems that recur across subscription software at scale: provisioning workflows, lifecycle automation, authorization boundaries, and operational tooling that reduces incident load over time. Experience improving observability and operability of asynchronous systems also translates well to any SaaS environment where background jobs, queues, and distributed services underpin core functionality. The cross-functional interface with product and security reflects how platform capabilities are shipped in mature SaaS organizations.
This role fits engineers who prefer backend ownership with an operations-aware mindset, and who like turning infrastructure constraints into clear customer experiences. It will suit someone comfortable collaborating across domains and iterating on systems that must remain dependable under real production usage. On-site in Menlo Park suggests a preference for close engineering partnership and hands-on execution.
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.
The Snowflake Postgres team is building a managed Postgres experience inside Snowflake. This role is focused on the control plane and user model that power how customers provision, manage, secure, and operate Postgres in Snowflake. You will work on core backend systems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems, database infrastructure, security, and operational excellence.
In this role, you will:
Design and build backend services that power provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of Snowflake Postgres instances.
Develop features in the access and user model, including authorization, secure administration flows, and customer-facing management capabilities.
Improve the reliability, observability, and operability of asynchronous workflows and background systems that keep the service healthy.
Partner with product, security, and adjacent engineering teams to deliver simple customer experiences on top of complex infrastructure.
Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and drive fixes that improve resilience and reduce operational burden.
Contribute to technical design, code review, and mentoring while helping raise the engineering bar across the team.
Our ideal candidate will have:
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 services in production, including debugging, monitoring, and incident response.
Experience working across technical boundaries with product, security, and other engineering teams.
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 cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Experience with workflow orchestration, control plane systems, or highly asynchronous service architectures.
Why join this team?
Work on a strategic product area that expands Snowflake into transactional and operational database workloads
Build systems that directly shape how customers create, manage, and secure Postgres inside Snowflake
Tackle a mix of product engineering, infrastructure, reliability, and security problems.
Join a collaborative team with meaningful ownership, strong technical challenges, and room to grow
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.
How do you want to make your impact?
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