Senior Software Engineer - Database Platform

with zero manual intervention

• Self-healing capabilities that prevent, mitigate and resolve any production impact

• Built-in configuration management that guarantees FDB runs correctly and on the intended topologies

• Self-optimizing COGS efficiency, ensuring we run our clusters at optimal utilization

We are looking for an outstanding Senior Software Engineer with a passion for large scale databases and distributed systems to help us take the FDB platform to the next level.
AS A SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER ON THIS TEAM, YOU WILL:

• Design and implement scalable distributed system solutions for our cloud agnostic platform.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, test and safe production rollout
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
• Build the next generation transaction system, caching, storage engine and multi tenant capabilities
• Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture.
• Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 5+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale infrastructure in production.

• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems infrastructure supporting stateful services

• Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.

• Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.

• Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in Java, C++, or C is preferred.

• Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms

• Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. a plus.

• Track record of delivering highly complex projects in the distributed systems space

• Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better

• Experience with one or more of the following highly desired:

• Big Data storage technologies and their applications (HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.)

• Scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra, etc.

• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

ABOUT SNOWFLAKE:

Snowflake SIGMOD 2016 paper

About FoundationDB:

FDB SIGMOD 21 Paper

FoundationDB Summit 2018 and FoundationDB Summit 2019

How FDB powers Snowflake Metadata Forward!