Engineering Manager, Release Validation & Test Platform

Snowflake; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking an AI-native, results-driven leader to run the Release Validation Team and advance our test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling. You will hire, mentor, and grow engineers, set the multi-quarter strategy, and own the validation platform to ensure reliability and speed across distributed workloads.

You'll partner with Release Engineering and engineering leaders to reduce blockers, improve failure analysis, and drive AI-enabled automation, enabling Snowflake to

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.
• Strong technical background to review designs, make architecture tradeoffs, and earn the respect of senior engineers.
• A solid grasp of test strategy: regression vs. workload testing, hermeticity, flakiness, coverage tradeoffs, and release gating.
• Experience driving work across many teams and influencing without authority.
• Data-driven leadership style with measurable goals and use of metrics.
• Strong communication skills for engineers and executives.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers working on test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling.
• 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.
• Cut down release blockers. Lead efforts to improve failure tracing to their cause and speed up triage.
• Drive AI and automation. Invest in AI-driven failure analysis and automated routing that remove manual work for engineers.
• Work across teams. Partner with Release Engineering and engineering leaders on release quality.

Skills

Hiring coaching

CI/CD experience

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

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

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Snowflake is seeking an AI-native, results-driven leader to run the Release Validation Team and advance our test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling. You will hire, mentor, and grow engineers, set the multi-quarter strategy, and own the validation platform to ensure reliability and speed across distributed workloads.

You'll partner with Release Engineering and engineering leaders to reduce blockers, improve failure analysis, and drive AI-enabled automation, enabling Snowflake to