
Senior Engineering Manager – PostgreSQL
Snowflake
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Menlo Park • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $264,000 - $379,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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).
- 5+ 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 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.
- Postgres depth: experience with Postgres as an end user, operator, or administrator; strong understanding of database fundamentals and tradeoffs (consistency, performance, scaling limits, cost).
- OR
- Love of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals.
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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Postgresdistributed systemscloud servicesAWSAzureGCPsystem designsoftware engineeringanalytical problem solvinghigh availability
Soft Skills
technical leadershipproblem solvingconsensus buildinglong-term thinkingoperational readinesscommunicationteam managementscalabilitytrade-off analysiscustomer commitment
Certifications
BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer Science