Snowflake DIRECTOR ENGINEERING GLOBAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE 

United States, California 

487201324

We are actively seeking a deeply technical Director of Engineering to lead this growing organization. You’ll be leading two pivotal teams: Snowhouse Foundation and Manageability.

If you are a passionate and influential leader who can lead a team of diverse, smart, and driven engineers to rapidly deliver high quality distributed system infrastructure while successfully balancing business requirements and priorities, we are looking for you.

• Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership and oversight of the Global Platform teams while actively driving the recruiting and hiring of top SWE talent
• Apply your extensive software engineering experience to innovate and build highly secured and reliable designs for real time ingestion, replication, global data objects, performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to define and execute long term strategies for the global platform organization.
• Lead/contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solving complex engineering problems.
• Up-level our product capability by designing, evolving, and making critical infrastructure highly capable and efficient.
• Manage, Grow, and Mentor the teams that have a significant impact on the success of the overall Snowflake product.
• Influence the industry by creating competitive advantages for our customers through their use of features and services that rely on our global platform infrastructure.

• 10+ years of Engineering Leadership experience with a core focus in large scale distributed systems, production data processing systems at scale, and/or large scale SaaS platform development
• Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers and other Senior Engineers to design and build the platform.
• 5+ years of hands-on technical leadership experience in one or more of those areas.
• Passion for and proven technical depth in building mission critical systems for scale, reliability, and robustness.
• Proven ability to align a vision, lead, and measure success through data: Metrics, KPIs, etc.
• Expertise working in the data warehousing/database/analytics product space and/or knowledge of database internals is a plus.
• Experience driving company initiatives towards customer satisfaction. Experience with leading the development of industry altering infrastructure is a plus.
• BS/MS/Phd in Computer Science or related majors required.