Software Engineering Manager

Snowflake

full-time

Posted on: 9/4/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington

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💰 $222,000 - $339,300 per year

SeniorLead

CloudSpark

About the role

Lead a team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of a highly distributed and performant database system (Unistore)
Build database internals focusing on high concurrency, low latency querying, transactions, compaction
Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions relating to OLTP and HTAP workloads
Translate product requirements into engineering work and coordinate cross-team assistance
Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities
Delegate decisions and empower team members
Partner with Engineering and Product leaders on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules
Shift resources across areas to achieve execution goals and respond to production issues
Reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high
Grow the team by recruiting and hiring new team members and fostering creativity and innovation
Follow company confidentiality and data security standards for handling sensitive data

7+ years of software engineering experience
2+ years of experience leading teams to build database system internals
Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query processing experience 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
Bonus: Experience with open storage formats, delta lake, spark, Iceberg
Bonus: Experience developing cloud-scale distributed database system internals
Bonus: Experience growing and leading senior and junior engineers in the team