Senior Engineering Manager - Data Lake

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.

You will lead and expand a talented team building on cutting-edge open-source data lake technologies. You'll drive innovation, foster collaboration within the open-source community, and ensure delivery of robust and scalable solutions for our enterprise customers.

As an Engineering Manager in the Data Lake team, you must possess a strong technical foundation with distributed systems, along with prior experience leading and growing engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of talented and high-performing engineers in the design, development, and support of highly distributed and scalable data platforms.
• Lead and participate in technical design and roadmap discussions relating to areas like Query Processing, Metadata Management, Performance, Scalability, and Open Source Interoperability.
• Have direct ownership to grow a strategic and emerging part of Snowflake's business to address new and expanding market opportunities in Data Lake and Data Analytics workloads.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills and the ability to work seamlessly across teams and organizations.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
• 3+ years of software engineering management experience.
• A track record of recruiting, leading, and growing high-performing technical teams.
• Experience building enterprise-grade software.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and strong CS fundamentals.
• Fluency in Java or C++.
• Ability to work in a globally distributed team and collaborate well across disciplines.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Apache open-source projects and open data formats.
• Modern data analytics technologies such as Spark, Trino, Presto.
• Experience working and building on Data Catalog platforms, Metadata platforms, and Data Governance platforms.

Benefits: 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