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Senior Software Engineer - Observe by Snowflake, Indexing and Query Execution

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about 3 hours ago
Zürich, Switzerland
Senior
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Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the query execution service, including caching and execution strategies.
  • Analyze large volumes of queries to identify performance bottlenecks.
  • Investigate and resolve customer-reported query latency issues.
  • Automate tuning of system parameters to reduce execution times and costs.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams to advocate for platform improvements.
  • Propose and deliver enhancements to the query execution pipeline.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with query execution machinery.
  • Ability to diagnose and resolve database performance issues at scale.
  • Strong understanding of algorithms and distributed systems architecture.
  • Customer-focused mindset for translating performance problems into solutions.
  • Strong communication skills for stakeholder collaboration.

Tech Stack

Snowflake

Categories

BackendData Engineering