Engineering Manager - Snowpark

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

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Software Engineering Manager for Snowpark to build a high-scale, cloud-native compute platform enabling AI, ML, and data workloads. You will lead a fast-moving team, shape the technical roadmap, and ensure reliability and performance at scale.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and influence strategic technical directions to accelerate product innovation within Snowflake's Data Cloud mission.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems platforms.
• 2+ years of full-time Software Engineering Management experience.
• Strong passion for making developers productive and enabling growth.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and serverless compute platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Run).

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and strategic direction to define and build a full ecosystem of technologies, technical roadmap, and vision.
• Plan, lead, and execute complex technical projects through your team across multiple company functions.
• Anticipate future trends and evolving customer needs, and drive strategies accordingly.
• Influence leadership on technical direction and product/team investment/pivot needs.
• Create tools and processes that improve team productivity and efficiency.
• Identify and lead improvements to product stability, reliability, on-call readiness, and diagnosability.
• Identify and fill skill gaps in the team and mentor engineers to grow technical expertise.

Skills

Distributed systems

Software engineering management

Cloud-native architectures

Serverless compute platforms

Technical leadership

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 on a mission to mobilize the world's data by changing the old-world paradigm of “bring data to compute” to “bring compute to the data”. Our innovative built-for-the-cloud architecture revolutionized the data warehousing industry with the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Our products enable thousands of enterprises to unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance.

We are looking for a talented, passionate Software Engineering Manager for our Snowpark product to build our elastic, high-scale, high-performance, cloud-native compute platform that makes bringing compute to data effortless and simple. Our mission is to make Snowflake the preferred platform to run all AI, ML, Data Science, and Data Engineering workloads. We are building the next generation of compute platforms to open up Snowflake’s doors to limitless opportunities of discovering structure and unstructured data at scale. You will be part of a highly productive, fast-moving, and growing team that is critical to realizing Snowflake’s Data Cloud Mission. This team innovates on behalf of our customers to build a fully managed compute platform that enables our customers to leverage their data to solve business problems without needing to manage required compute infrastructure.

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER FOR SNOWPARK, YOU WILL:

• Provide technical and strategic direction leadership to define and build a full ecosystem of technologies, technical roadmap, and vision.

• Plan, lead, and execute complex technical projects through your team that interact with a wide variety of teams within the company.

• Anticipate future trends and evolving customer needs accurately and drive strategies appropriately.

• Influence leadership on technical direction and product/team investment/pivot needs.

• Create tools/processes/solutions that improve team productivity and efficiency.

• Identify and lead improvements to product stability and reliability, on-call and service health, customer support, diagnosability, and manageability of the product.

• Identify and fill skill and expertise gaps in the team.

• Mentor and guide engineers, growing strong technical expertise within the team.

OUR IDEAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:

• 8+ years of industry experience designing and building large-scale distributed systems platforms that accelerate product innovation.

• 2+ years of full-time Software Engineering Management experience.

• Strong passion for making developers highly productive and enabling them to be successful and grow in their career.

• Experience with cloud-native architectures and serverless compute platforms (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Run functions, etc).

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

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?

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