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Staff Software Engineer - Postgres Control Plane

Location: US-WA-Bellevue · Category: Engineering & Development · Seniority: Lead · Posted: September 26, 2026 · Verified: Sep 29, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This senior role leads the development of the orchestration layer and control-plane for Snowflake's new large-scale, multi-cloud Postgres OLTP service. The engineer will build High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, tune Postgres for massive datasets, and work with AWS, Azure, and GCP APIs. Requires 7+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems with deep Postgres knowledge and expertise in Java, Python/Ruby, and Go.
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