Description
As an Engineering Manager at Snowflake, you will help define the architecture, push the boundaries of Postgres in the cloud, and shape one of Snowflake's most strategic new products.
Responsibilities:
- Provide strong technical leadership across both the Postgres dataplane and the orchestration/control plane required to deliver a managed service (HA, upgrades, backups, scaling, automation, and operational safety).
- Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties to reach solutions that are scalable, tractable, and timely.
- Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder by building the roadmap while delivering it.
- Leverage your experience to balance long-term thinking with more immediate business needs.
- Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability, performance, and security.
- Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem-solving skills.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services).
- 3+ years of experience building, managing, and leading high-performing engineering teams (and experience leading managers is a strong plus).
- Strong track record of delivering large-scale, resilient systems and services in production.
- Significant experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) and building services with high availability and operational rigor.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional alignment and influence across org boundaries.
- Strong hands-on technical ability; comfortable navigating complex codebases and diving deep into system design and implementation.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
Benefits:
- Build an industry-leading Cloud Data and AI Platform.
- Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
- Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.
- Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.