Engineering Leader, Release Validation & AI Automation

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 339,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k)

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Snowflake is rapidly expanding its Release Validation team and seeks an experienced leader to hire, mentor, and develop engineers focused on test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling.

In this role, you will set the multi‑quarter vision for release validation, own the validation platform, improve test health, reduce blockers, and drive AI‑driven failure analysis across Snowflake.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers at different career stages.
• Experience building and running large‑scale CI/CD, test infrastructure, or developer productivity platforms, ideally for complex distributed systems.
• A strong technical background, with enough depth to review designs, make architecture tradeoffs, and earn the respect of senior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers working on test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling. Build a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and focus on the customer.
• Set strategy and roadmap. Define and drive the multi‑quarter vision for release validation: faster signals, fewer blockers, better test quality, and lower cost.
• Own the validation platform. Be accountable for the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our distributed regression and workload test frameworks, pre‑production environments, and release validation pipeline.
• Improve test health across the company. Work with feature teams to reduce flaky, non‑hermetic, duplicate, and low‑value tests, and set standards and incentives that keep them healthy.
• Cut down release blockers. Lead efforts to improve how failures are traced to their cause, filter out noise from infrastructure problems, and speed up triage so real regressions reach the owning team quickly.
• Drive AI and automation. Invest in AI‑driven failure analysis and automated routing that remove manual work for engineers across Snowflake.
• Work across teams. Act as the main partner to Release Engineering and engineering leaders on release quality

Skills

People leadership

CI/CD

Test infrastructure

Developer productivity

Communication

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Testing frameworks

Job description

Snowflake is rapidly expanding its Release Validation team and seeks an experienced leader to hire, mentor, and develop engineers focused on test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling.

In this role, you will set the multi‑quarter vision for release validation, own the validation platform, improve test health, reduce blockers, and drive AI‑driven failure analysis across Snowflake.