Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

We're looking for a talented and passionate Software Engineering Manager for the Metadata team in Berlin. You will drive innovation and guide a dynamic team to make a significant impact in core infrastructure Metadata services. The role offers a mix of team leadership / people management and technical decision making.

Our mission is to provide low-latency and highly consistent access to Snowflake's metadata in a secure way. We keep data safe through geo replication and offer immutable snapshots over long periods of time. Most prominently, we build high-scale APIs that power different types of workload from analytics warehouse and Unistore up to AI and container functions. Almost any internal service interfaces with Metadata APIs. Therefore, our services run at a large scale, supporting trillions of requests per day. Additionally, we own the representation of Metadata to users through the means of Infoschema, SHOW commands and Snowflake APIs.

• Set the strategic vision for your team and be accountable for team plans and deliverables
• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed
• Drive team projects from conception, through design and implementation collaborating with partner teams
• Be able to shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and to respond to lessons from customer and production issues
• Provide strong technical leadership to the team with a focus on quality
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making
• Grow and build a strong, healthy, and diverse team by participating in all steps of the recruiting process from sourcing to closing
• Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship and coaching
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and cross functional teams

• Understanding of Data Infrastructure systems and architectures built on Public Cloud platforms.
• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with prior experience in building or maintaining distributed systems
• 4+ years of leadership experience, managing software development and/or automating large scale systems/processes.
• Ability to translate business strategy into action.
• Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and interacting with customers
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

• 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