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Snowflake· HQ in Suite 3A, 106 East Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT 59715

Principal Software Engineer 2 - OLTP

Location: US-CA-Menlo Park · Category: Engineering & Development · Seniority: Lead · Posted: October 6, 2026 · Verified: Oct 8, 2026

Role Overview & Description

Defines and drives the long-term technical architecture for Snowflake's OLTP systems, including Snowflake Postgres and Unistore. Leads architectural decisions across transactions, storage, concurrency control, and replication, and designs database primitives for agent-driven workloads. Requires deep expertise in database internals and cloud-native architecture.
Source & Transparency: This position was structured directly from the publicly accessible career portal of Snowflake. Details on the employer’s original job posting are authoritative. Polaris7 charges no placement fees and conducts no candidate screening.

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