# Senior Engineering Manager - Data Lake

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Bellevue, Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $264K - $396K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

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## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- data lake technologies
- Java
- C++
- software engineering management
- data structures
- algorithms
- CS fundamentals

### Nice to have
- Apache open-source projects
- open data formats
- Spark
- Trino
- Presto
- Data Catalog platforms
- Metadata platforms
- Data Governance platforms

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