Engineering Manager - Query Lifecycle Platform

Build the future of data. Join the Snowflake team.

We own the platform that manages the lifecycle of all of Snowflake’s data warehouse workloads. We build infrastructure that perform request routing, metadata persistence and monitoring, error handling, and request retry.

The team also owns the query APIs into Snowflake and the platform is responsible for shepherding every single request from first request to completion. Come join us as the team solves hard problems to support new workloads, improve query performance, improve reliability as we ensure exactly once semantics in a heavily distributed environment.

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. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on our elastic, large scale, high-performance computing environment.

We are actively looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow the Query Lifecycle Platform team. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the vision and architecture of how Snowflake operates and manages its queries.

• 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.
  • 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.
• 3+ 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.
• 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.

AS A LEADER ON OUR TEAM, YOU WILL:

• Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building an 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 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

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?

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.