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.