Engineering Manager

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid holidays

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking an Engineering Manager to define the architecture for a cloud-native, managed PostgreSQL service. You will lead the Postgres dataplane and orchestration/control plane, ensuring high availability and strong performance at scale.

You will guide a high-performing engineering team, balance long-term strategy with immediate business priorities, and collaborate across teams to deliver robust, secure systems for Snowflake’s customers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services.
• 3+ years leading high-performing engineering teams (managers varyingly included).
• Proven track record delivering resilient, production-grade systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across Postgres dataplane and orchestration/control plane for a managed service.
• Break problems down, build consensus, and drive scalable, timely solutions.
• Balance long-term strategy with immediate business needs and roadmap delivery.
• Ensure availability, durability, performance, and security of services.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to align on architecture and influence decisions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud services

Leadership

PostgreSQL/Postgres

Communication

System design

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
Snowflake is reimagining what a modern Postgres experience can be. The Snowflake Postgres team is building a fully managed, cloud-native Postgres service that delivers the reliability, performance, and scale developers expect that is paired with a data experience that seamlessly ties into Snowflake.
As an Engineer Manager, you'll help define the architecture, push the boundaries of Postgres in the cloud, and shape one of Snowflake's most strategic new products

AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:

• 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.

OUR IDEAL ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services).
• 3+ 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 communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional alignment and influence across org boundaries.
• 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.

WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

• 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.

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?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $236,000 - $339,250.
• 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.

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