Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.
We're at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world's greatest data and applications platform. Our "Get It Done" culture allows everyone at Snowflake to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration.
At the center of the data cloud is the Snowflake Database Engineering team. We are responsible for building the core query engine used to process the massive amounts of diverse data managed by our customers. And we're focused on developing a new database product called Unistore which delivers transactional and analytical data together in a single platform. We're building state-of-the-art query execution techniques and underlying data storage formats/representations to solve this exciting problem.
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We are looking for an outstanding Engineering Manager to join and grow the team.
AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
- Lead a team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of a highly distributed and performant database system with a specific focus on building database internals, like high concurrency, low latency querying, transactions, compaction, etc.
- Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions relating to OLTP (online transaction processing) and HTAP (hybrid transactional and analytical processing) workloads.
- Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities
- Be comfortable delegating decisions for part of what's under your purview to others
- Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed
- Partner with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules
- Know how and when to shift resources across areas to achieve execution goals and respond to lessons from production issues
- Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high
- Grow the team by recruiting and hiring new team members and growing existing ones
- Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making
- 7+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years of experience leading teams to build database system internals
- Rock solid engineering fundamentals; development of database internals experience are highly preferred but not required
- A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
- Proven experience authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs
- Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Experience with transactions, concurrency, performance, understanding customer workloads
- Developing cloud-scale distributed database system internals
- Experience growing and leading senior and junior engineers in the team
This is an excellent opportunity to:
- Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building the 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 team leader
- Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly distributed, robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and more than a billion complex queries every day
Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company's confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company's data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:
- The estimated base salary range for this role is $214,000 - $299,250.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.
The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?