Senior Software Engineer - Developer Productivity Engineering

at  Snowflake

Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.
We are seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join the Database Search team in Berlin to drive strategic initiatives ranging from accelerating selective queries to enabling new workloads by identifying and implementing novel indexing methods. The Database Search team is also responsible for index maintenance services, smart index selection, query pruning & other optimization techniques, and more.
This role offers the ability to make a significant impact on our core data management capabilities that enable the Data Cloud.
Learn more about the Berlin office here

OUR IDEAL SENIOR ENGINEER WILL HAVE:

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Background in database internals or building core engine components for large scale data processing systems or information retrieval systems / search engines (e.g. Lucene, Solr).
• Strong database fundamentals including SQL, performance, and multi-threading.
• Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++ and/or Java.
• Experience working with text or semi-structured data (i.e. JSON, XML, ORC, Avro, Parquet, etc.).
• BS in Computer Science or a related field; Masters or PhD preferred.
  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

Please refer the Job description for details