Engineering Manager, Internal Compute - Distributed Systems

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

We are looking for an outstanding Engineering Manager to join, build, and lead part of the Snowflake Internal Compute - Distributed Systems team. The team’s mission is to deliver a modern, distributed, cloud-native service platform that ensures Snowflake can scale infinitely to meet rapidly growing customer demand across multiple cloud providers.

Today the platform manages the lifecycle for thousands of VMs and millions of customer jobs globally.  It delivers a rich set of monitoring, diagnostic, and configuration management services to ensure the system runs efficiently.

This is just the beginning.  We need to continue innovating and designing for the future.  We are looking for a Manager to lead the strategic initiatives to support new workloads being built for the Snowflake Data Cloud while ensuring scalability, efficiency, and availability continues to exceed our customer demand.

AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO:

• Set the strategic vision for your team and be accountable for team plans and deliverables

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

• Drive team projects from idea formulation, through design and implementation collaborating with partner teams

• Be able to shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and to respond to lessons from customer and production issues

• Provide strong technical leadership to the team with a focus on quality

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

• Grow and build a strong, healthy, and diverse team by participating in all steps of the recruiting process from sourcing to closing

• Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship and coaching

• Collaborate with other engineering teams and cross functional teams

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, ideally with experience managing managers

• A track record of recruiting, leading and growing technical teams

• Rock solid engineering fundamentals; distributed systems experience is preferred

• Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP

• Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

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

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills

• Comfortable working across multiple teams and interacting with customers

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

WHY BE A ENGINEERING MANAGER IN BERLIN?

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 may thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries every day

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com