Set the Strategic Vision: Define the roadmap for Snowflake’s networking foundation and be accountable for the execution of complex plans and deliverables.
Scale Infrastructure: Guide your team in building software solutions that automate and scale networking across multiple cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Drive Innovation: Lead projects from initial idea through design and implementation, collaborating with teams in the US, Ireland, Poland, and beyond.
Technical Leadership: Provide deep technical expertise with a focus on high-performance, security, and the abstraction of complex cloud networking layers.
Build the Team: Actively recruit, hire, and grow a diverse team of industry veterans and rising stars.
Mentorship: Be responsible for the career development of your reports through continuous coaching and mentorship.
Operational Excellence: Shift resources dynamically to respond to production issues and customer needs, ensuring high levels of reliability.

Requirements

Experience: 15+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in engineering management leading leaders.
Distributed Systems Expertise: Proven track record in designing systems and managing large-scale production infrastructure with a focus on networking, compute, or storage
Cloud Fluency: Strong hands-on experience with cloud service providers.
SaaS Background: Deep experience working at scale within a multi-tenant or multi-single-tenant SaaS model, handling billions of complex queries and massive traffic ingress/egress.
Communication: Excellent collaboration skills to bridge the gap between complex networking requirements and cross-functional business goals.
Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Impact: You're actively evolving a network architecture, building new observability capabilities, modernizing legacy infrastructure, and designing the next-generation connectivity model across multiple clouds. Every Snowflake team depends on what this group ships. Infrastructure is our product.
Growth: This role will push your technical and leadership boundaries in an environment that values practical decision-making and creativity.
Security First: You will play a critical role in upholding Snowflake’s high standards for data security and confidentiality.
Builder's Culture: We ship our own proxy infrastructure, our own service discovery, our own network automation. This is a build role for someone who wants to own the full traffic stack.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

software engineeringdistributed systemscloud networkingSaaSnetworkingcomputestorageautomationhigh-performance computingsecurity

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentorshipcollaborationteam buildingcommunicationcoachingstrategic visionoperational excellence