Snowflake ENGINEERING MANAGER DATABASE INTERNALS 

United States, California 

278277192

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 performant transactional KV store with a specific focus on building database internals, like high throughput, low latency, transactions, storage engine, etc

• Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions relating to OLTP (online transaction processing) and HTAP (hybrid transactional and analytical processing) workloads.

• Ensure reliability, performance and scale of the services you own in production.

• Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities

• 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 quality 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:

• 8+ years of experience in database internals or distributed systems.

• 5+ years of experience in managing and leading teams to build large scale systems or databases.

• BS in Computer Science or related majors; Masters or PhD preferred.

• Strong track record of delivering large scale and resilient distributed systems and services.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

• Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into the complex system design and implementation when needed.

• Strong systems fundamentals including scheduling, IO subsystem and multi-threading.

• Experience with modern C++, i.e. C++11 and beyond.

• A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market

• Knowledge and experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP is a huge plus.

• Experience in SQL and data analysis is a big plus.

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.