🔥 Snowflake · DE-Berlin-Trion Building
Skills: Java, SQL
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. ABOUT DATABASE SEARCH Within this broader Berlin engineering team, Database Search focuses on workload optimization: building core database-engine capabilities that help customer queries run faster by finding and processing data efficiently. The team works on indexing methods, index selection and maintenance, data pruning and skipping, and query optimization for selective SQL queries and other workloads. This work also contributes to Snowflake Optima, which automatically identifies optimization opportunities in customer workloads and seamlessly integrates them so queries get faster over time with minimal user input. THE ROLE As a Software Engineer, you’ll take on challenging problems inside the database engine, designing, implementing, and improving components across indexing, query optimization, and execution. You’ll drive work from investigation through tested implementation and collaborate with teammates to deliver robust solutions for demanding customer workloads. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Implement, test, and improve database-engine features across indexing, data pruning and skipping, query optimization, and execution. - Investigate performance and scalability bottlenecks using debugging, instrumentation, and measurement, then drive fixes through validation. - Write maintainabl…
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