Snowflake ENGINEERING MANAGER - DATABASE SYSTEMS 

Germany, Berlin, Berlin 

198610504

We’re looking for an exceptional and experienced
Engineering Manager

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• Lead a growing team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant SQL database system

• Hire great engineers and build an outstanding team

• Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and developing engineering leaders

• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team

• Collaborate with other local and global teams/leaders in the Engineering and Product Management organizations

• Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high

• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience

• 3+ years of engineering management experience

• Strong database fundamentals including SQL processing internals experience (query compilation, optimization and execution)

• Proven experience in managing projects (ideally using JIRA), and authoring and reviewing project scope-, design-, and test-plan-documents

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

• Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills

• Outstanding written and oral English language skills

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

• Background in large scale data processing systems, e.g., Hadoop, Spark, etc.

• Prior experience running SQL database engineering teams

• Proven experience with authoring product roadmaps.

• Experience in operating a service and conducting root cause analysis (RCA) of issues

As a leader in our team you will:

• Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building an industry-leading cloud data platform that customers love

• Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow, both technically as well as a leader

• Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly parallel, robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries every day