Snowflake ENGINEERING MANAGER SQL FRAMEWORKS 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

23156384

AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Lead a team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of a highly distributed and reliable database system with a specific focus on building frameworks, generative and cross feature testing capabilities.
• Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions relating to the different product capabilities and workloads (OLTP, OLAP, ML, AI etc) towards building a resilient and robust Query platform for the Snowflake database.
• Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities
• Be comfortable delegating decisions for part of what’s under your purview to others
• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed
• Partner with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules
• Know how and when to shift resources across areas to achieve execution goals and respond to lessons from production issues
• Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the bar high
• Grow the team by recruiting and hiring new team members and growing existing ones
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience leading teams to build database system internals, frameworks
• Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query processing experience are highly preferred but not required
• A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
• Proven experience authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs
• Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• Experience building reliability, performance, generative or insight frameworks (chaos monkey, simian army etc)
• Experience with open storage formats, delta lake, spark, Iceberg
• Developing cloud-sale distributed database system internals
• Experience growing and leading senior and junior engineers in the team

This is an excellent opportunity to:

• Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building the industry-leading data management system that customers love
• Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow, both technically as well as a team leader
• Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly distributed, robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and more than a billion complex queries every day

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $327,750.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.