Senior Software Engineer - FoundationDB Security

Snowflake

Jun 4

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Job
Full-time
Senior & Expert Level
Software Engineering
$214K - $299.3K
San Mateo, +1

Requirements

8+ years hands-on software engineering experience.
Systems programming skills including multi-threading, concurrency, etc. Fluency in C++, C, or Java is preferred.
Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or web services
Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc. a plus.
Hands-on experience designing/implementing database security technologies, including encryption algorithms, cryptographic key management systems, and secure authentication mechanisms.
Familiarity with industry standards and best practices for database security (e.g., NIST SP 800-53, OWASP Top Ten).
Strong understanding of network security principles, including encryption, authentication, and secure network protocols (e.g., TLS/SSL).
Strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Track record of delivering highly complex projects in the distributed systems space
Intense curiosity, willingness to question and passion for making systems better
Strong technical problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills
Excitement by the challenge of hard technical problems
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

Responsibilities

Identify strategically important problems, inefficiencies or opportunities for impactful improvements
Own the end to end delivery of your projects, from identifying a solution, to design, implementation, test and safe production rollout
Design and implement critical high performance systems to handle the ever growing request rate of our database
Build the next generation transaction system, caching, storage engine, multi tenant capabilities and database security features.
Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture.
Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them.
Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and ultimately implement solutions.

FAQs

What are the key responsibilities of a Senior Software Engineer - FoundationDB Security?

The key responsibilities of this role include working on large scale databases and distributed systems, helping scale FoundationDB by at least one order of magnitude, addressing emerging workloads that require reliability, high availability, and strong consistency, and innovating the core components of the system to meet future needs.

Snowflake

Snowflake delivers the Data Cloud — mobilize your data with near-unlimited scale and performance.

Technology

Industry

5001-10,000

Employees

2012

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

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