# Engineering Manager - Cloud Efficiency

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Bellevue, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $236K – $339.2K
**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.

**Engineering Manager, Cloud Efficiency**

Snowflake runs large scale cloud infrastructure to deliver its own service , production and internal deployments, Kubernetes fleets, CI/CD, etc. Our cloud spend is in billions of dollars per year. We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the **Cloud Efficiency** engineering team. In this role, you will own the technical vision and execution for building a unified, self-serve cloud efficiency platform along with AI skills and agents that makes resource usage and spend attributable and governable while driving insights and optimization of our cloud spend.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead and grow our talented team of software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.

- Drive the roadmap for Cloud Efficiency , translating company-level spend objectives into engineering systems: authoritative cost data, resource ownership registry, attribution pipelines, cost and unit economics modeling, observability, governance policies, and optimization workflows , in partnership with Product, Engineering, Finance, and Data Science.

- Set technical strategy for backend systems, data pipelines, and APIs that measure, attribute and surface cost and usage insights at massive scale.

- Own delivery end-to-end: from planning and scoping to design reviews, execution, launch, and iterations based on customer feedback.

- Partner cross-functionally with other engineering and cross functional teams to ensure smooth integrations and end customer success.

- Represent your team in broader technical discussions, contributing to Snowflake engineering-wide initiatives and best practices.

**Requirements**

- 9+ years of software engineering experience, with **3+ years in an engineering management role** leading teams in designing and building large scale systems in production.

- Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, data engineering, or cloud-native backend development.

- Demonstrated ability to define and execute multi-quarter technical roadmaps while balancing short-term delivery and long-term platform health.

- Experience building cost management, budgeting, billing or FinOps tooling in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Experience with anomaly detection, time-series analysis, or ML-driven cost optimization products.

- Excellent communication skills: able to distill complex technical problems for executive audiences and motivate engineers around a shared vision.

- Track record of hiring, growing, and retaining strong engineering talent.

- Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into complex system designs and implementation.

- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud efficiency
- AI skills
- data engineering
- cloud-native backend development
- cost management
- FinOps tooling
- anomaly detection
- time-series analysis
- ML-driven cost optimization

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