Senior Software Engineer - ManagedDB

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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.

Senior Software Engineer - ManagedDB Team

Location: Menlo Park, CA

Work Authorization: US Citizenship or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) required due to compliance requirements.

Build the Future of Data. Join the Snowflake Team.

Snowflake customers run more than 3.9 billion queries and over 515 million data workloads each day.

The Snowflake Engineering team is a global team of high-performing engineers focused on building best-in-class tooling, automation, and a scalable infrastructure platform to power the Snowflake service. Our focus areas include Snowflake's global-scale multi-cloud infrastructure, core platform services, edge traffic delivery, and reliability engineering. We automate the deployment of the Snowflake production service across dozens of regions and all major cloud providers.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our ManagedDB Team in Menlo Park, CA.

ManagedDB team is responsible in large number of databases running in every Snowflake region across several public cloud providers. Our systems sit at the critical path of multiple external and internal systems including Snowflake UI, Service Discovery, Deployment Automation, CoCo and many others. Given the massive and constantly accelerating volumes of data flowing through Snowflake, this role presents significant opportunities to architect, scale, and innovate at high-throuput, low-latency critical database systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the ManagedDB Team, You Will:

• Architect & Scale: Lead the technical vision, design, and implementation of database products to suit internal needs.

• Drive Multi-Cloud Strategy: Create elegant, cloud-agnostic abstractions and software infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP to ensure seamless management and rapid feature delivery.

• Technical Leadership: Drive complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives from inception to production, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers, and establishing software engineering best practices.

• Ensure High Availability & Security: Continuously harden our database infrastructure meet SLAs around uptime, security, and durability.

• Production Excellence: Participate in an on-call rotation, lead incident investigations for complex production issues, and direct blameless post-mortems to drive permanent systemic improvements.

• Collaborate Across Teams: Partner closely with Security, Infrastructure, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to support new product capabilities at scale.

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• Work Authorization: Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Green Card holder).

• Education: BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent professional experience).

• Experience: 7–12 years of professional experience designing, building, operating, and scaling large-scale backend distributed systems in high-growth production environments.

• Core Systems Knowledge: Understanding of databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) and experience running large-scale distributed systems.

• Advanced Programming Proficiency: Strong hands-on coding experience in systems and application languages such as Go, Java, C++, or Rust.

• Public Cloud Mastery: Extensive experience architecting infrastructure on major public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including cloud networking constructs (e.g., VPC peering, PrivateLink, Transit Gateways).

• Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Proficient in automating global fleet deployment and configuration using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

• Leadership & Influence: Proven track record of technical ownership, breaking down ambiguous problems into concrete roadmaps, and delivering high-impact projects across multiple engineering teams.

Why Join Us?

We value a strong growth mindset and a collaborative, blameless engineering culture. If you thrive on solving complex platform engineering challenges at massive scale, we would love to hear from you.

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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How Menlo Park compares. Among the 145 largest places in California, Menlo Park is #133 by population, #9 for household income (#1 = highest), #135 for rent (#1 = cheapest), #11 for college degrees (#1 = most). Its county, San Mateo County, is #2 of 58 counties for average pay ($196,441).

The place in numbers

Menlo Park has 32,727 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 0.1% of the population of California. It covers 10 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 3,276 people per square mile. The median age is 39.5, 4% older than the state median (39.5 against 37.9).

Housing

The median gross rent is $3,239 a month (rent plus utilities), 59% above the state median ($3,239 against $2,036). Over a year that is 18.5% 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 above $2 million (the ACS reports $2,000,001 as its highest value, so the true median is higher), which is at least 9.5 times the median household income ($210,025); a ratio above 5 usually means buying is out of reach without savings or a second income. 54.2% of households own their home, about the same as the state average (54.2% against 55.9%).

Work and pay

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan area has 2,373,920 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $74,260 a year, 46% above the national median ($74,260 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (226,320 jobs, median $62,120); management (223,100 jobs, median $176,340); business and financial operations (207,030 jobs, median $112,960). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.9 times) and life, physical, and social science (1.8 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($176,340) and computer and mathematical ($167,770). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of San Mateo County was 3.9%. 65.9% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in San Mateo County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 48.4% drive alone, 2.0% use public transit, 1.7% walk, 32.4% work from home. 11.5% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 41% below the state average (11.5% against 19.4%). 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

72.5% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 96% above the state share (72.5% against 37.1%). 30.0% of residents were born outside the United States, 11% above the state share (30.0% against 27.0%). The poverty rate is 5.8%, 52% below the state rate (5.8% against 12.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Aug, averaging 68°F (19.8°C), and the coolest is Jan at 47°F (8.3°C). About 510 mm (20 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Dec is the wettest month (114 mm) and Jul the driest (0 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: East Palo Alto (1 miles, rent 31% lower); Atherton (3 miles, rent 8% higher); Redwood City (4 miles, rent 8% lower); Palo Alto (6 miles, rent 8% higher). Rent differences are against Menlo Park; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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