Staff Software Engineer - Query Processing (Snowtrail)

US-CA-Menlo Park💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build software systems to accelerate engineering team development velocity and provide quality validation, optimized for cost and performance.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Query Processing)

Builds

Large-scale distributed systems infrastructure and query execution systems

Domain

Cloud-native data platform, database internals, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

SQL, database internals design and implementation, query optimization, query execution, compiler design and implementation, MySQL internals, PostgreSQL internals, large-scale distributed systems infrastructure, data structures, algorithms

Preferred skills

Release validation pipelines, test infrastructure in production

Technologies

SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Responsibilities

Design and build software systems to increase engineering development velocity, ensure quality validation, stay ahead of technological trends and future demands

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship

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About Snowflake

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 Snowf