Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane

The job

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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.

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 scale, multi-cloud Postgres offering with access to an existing customer base.

AS A SENIOR POSTGRES ENGINEER YOU WILL:

• Develop orchestration layer/ control-plane of large scale databases

• Work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs

• 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

• Work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry and help redefine the space by inventing at various layers of the software stack — from broad distributed systems to low-level optimizations that fundamentally change the performance characteristics of the system to cater to our customer needs.

OUR IDEAL SENIOR POSTGRES ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 7+ years industry experience designing, building and developing large scale systems in production

• Experience building and maintaining distributed, highly available, 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 Java, Python/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

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?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

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The city

The job is in Bellevue, WA. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Bellevue compares. Among the 80 largest places in Washington, Bellevue is #5 by population, #5 for college degrees (#1 = most), #75 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #7 for household income (#1 = highest). Its county, King County, is #1 of 39 counties for average pay ($132,279).

The place in numbers

Bellevue has 151,847 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 1.9% of the population of Washington. It covers 33 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 4,537 people per square mile. The median age is 38.5, about the same as the state median (38.5 against 38.3).

Housing

The median gross rent is $2,572 a month (rent plus utilities), 46% above the state median ($2,572 against $1,760). Over a year that is 18.6% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $1,340,300, which is 8.1 times the median household income ($165,576); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 52.0% of households own their home, 18% below the state average (52.0% against 63.8%).

Work and pay

The Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metropolitan area has 2,086,210 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $72,610 a year, 42% above the national median ($72,610 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (212,900 jobs, median $59,660); business and financial operations (201,160 jobs, median $101,950); computer and mathematical (194,970 jobs, median $156,000). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (2.8 times) and architecture and engineering (1.4 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($168,110) and computer and mathematical ($156,000). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of King County was 4.8%. 67.0% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in King County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 45.6% drive alone, 5.1% use public transit, 4.5% walk, 35.5% work from home. 11.1% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 34% below the state average (11.1% against 16.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

72.1% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 82% above the state share (72.1% against 39.6%). 43.5% of residents were born outside the United States, 181% above the state share (43.5% against 15.4%). The poverty rate is 7.2%, 27% below the state rate (7.2% against 9.9%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 63°F (17.1°C), and the coolest is Dec at 34°F (1.0°C). About 1,737 mm (68 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Nov is the wettest month (256 mm) and Jul the driest (27 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Mercer Island (4 miles, similar rent); Sammamish (6 miles, rent 11% higher); Redmond (6 miles, rent 6% lower); Issaquah (6 miles, similar rent). Rent differences are against Bellevue; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Where to live

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Distances

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Median rent in Bellevue is $2,572 a month and median household income $165,576 (ACS 2020–2024).

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• Wages and projections: BLS OEWS (May 2025) and Employment Projections 2025–35.
• City and county figures: Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024, BEA, BLS QCEW and LAUS, NASA POWER climatology; distances from Census Gazetteer coordinates.

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• BEA GDP by state and Regional Price Parities
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