Snowflake ENGINEERING MANAGER - COMPUTE SERVICE 

United States, California 

28041674

There is only one Data Cloud.

Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it.

• Lead a team of talented engineers in

  • Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills

  • Designing and implementing scalable distributed systems for our services layer.

  • Analyzing fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solving them.

  • Leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams

  • Understanding trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.

  • Ensuring operational readiness of the services and meeting the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.

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

• Be comfortable with delegating decisions for part of what is under your leadership to others.

• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, and reach out to others for assistance as needed.

• Partner with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules.

• 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 MANAGER WILL HAVE:

• 9+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.

• 2+ years experience in managing a group of junior and senior engineers.

• Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring.

• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.

• A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams.

• Proven experience authoring roadmap documents and project plans.

• Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills.

• Track record of identifying and delivering creative solutions.

• Experience with building serverless cloud infrastructure - AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or Google Cloud Functions.

• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

• Build an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.

• Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!

• Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.

• Learn about and contribute to:

  • Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries daily.

  • Highly-scalable and reliable cloud platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.

  • Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
    

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $222,000 - $339,250.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.