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Staff Software Engineer - Unistore

Snowflake
CompanySnowflake
CategoryEngineering
LocationMenlo Park
RemoteHybrid
EmploymentNot stated
LevelNot stated
SalaryUSD 236k–339k
Posted25 Jun 2026
Last verified30 Jul 2026
SourceEmployer career page (ashby)
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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 a high-growth, cloud-native data platform company committed to empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential. With a culture built on impact, innovation, and collaboration, we offer an environment where you can build large-scale systems, move fast, and take your technology career to the next level. We are seeking a highly talented and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join the Unistore team in our Database Engineering org https://snowflake.phenompro.com/us/en/database-engineering. The Unistore team is building a unified hybrid data platform that dissolves the boundaries between operational and analytical workloads. Our core product, Hybrid Tables, enables enterprises to manage both transactional and analytical data in a single place. By eliminating the need to move data between separate operational databases and analytical warehouses, we simplify architectures, reduce ETL complexity, and unlock high-performance, real-time application serving—all while maintaining Snowflake's industry-leading scale, performance, and ACID compliance. Joining this team means architecting the performance, scalability, and service infrastructure that will empower the world's largest enterprises to seamlessly govern their transactional and analytical data in one place. If you are passionate about building industry-leading technologies that solve real-world scale and performance problems, this is the place to be. In this role, you will be a key contributor to the evolution of our core product: an elastic, large-scale, high-performance data processing system. We are looking for smart, enthusiastic engineers who can quickly master complex technical areas and are passionate about building new, industry-leading technologies. AS A STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Participate in the development of a unique distributed database system combining high scalability and performance with rich ACID transactions. - Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements. - Design and implement novel query optimization or distributed data processing algorithms to maintain Snowflake's industry-leading data warehousing capabilities. - Design, develop, and support a petabyte-scale cloud database system, ensuring it is highly parallel and fault-tolerant. - Develop and implement the new service architecture required to enable the next generation of the Snowflake Data Cloud. - Analyze, understand, and resolve complex performance and scalability bottlenecks within the system. - Own the end-to-end delivery of your projects, including identifying solutions, design, implementation, rigorous testing, and safe production rollout. - Ensure operational readiness and execute production operations of services, meeting our customer commitments for durability, availability, and performance. - Build high-quality, highly reliable software that meets the demands of the world's largest companies. - Develop tools to provide customers with greater insight into their workloads. - Evangelize best practices for database usage and end-to-end system architecture. - Mentor and support the professional growth of junior engineers on the team. OUR IDEAL STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER WILL
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