Engineering Manager – Snowtrail

Snowflake; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 339,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team in Menlo Park, California. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the system that provides customer-specific workloads, ensuring reliability and performance, and collaborating with other teams to evolve Snowtrail. You should have over 10 years of experience with distributed data systems and demonstrate a strong passion for software quality. The estimated salary range for this role is between $236,000 and $339,200, along with an eligible bonus and equity plan.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
• Strong passion for shipping quality software in high code velocity environments.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team and drive the design and evolution of the system.
• Ensure platform reliability, correctness, and performance using query replay.
• Collaborate across teams to evolve Snowtrail with new engine features.

Skills

SQL

Java

C++

Python

Go

Problem solving

Distributed systems

Job description

Overview

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.

We’re hiring a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team at Snowflake. Snowtrail is the infrastructure that enables Snowflake to deliver dedicated coverage for customer-specific workloads. Its innovative approach allows Snowflake to precisely test and measure the impact of changes on individual customers, making it essential for ensuring the platform’s reliability, correctness, and performance. Through query replay, Snowtrail helps us catch regressions early. By leveraging machine learning models to intelligently sample queries and workloads, we continuously optimize for both cost and performance. Evolving Snowtrail to incorporate new engine features while improving scalability, efficiency, and reliability is central to our continued success.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team and drive the design, implementation, and evolution of the system that provides dedicated coverage for customer-specific workloads.
• Ensure platform reliability, correctness, and performance; use query replay to catch regressions early.
• Leverage machine learning models to intelligently sample queries and workloads to optimize cost and performance.
• Collaborate across teams to evolve Snowtrail with new engine features while improving scalability, efficiency, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong passion and proven track record for shipping quality software in high code velocity environments.
• 10+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
• Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Fluency in SQL, Java, C++, Python or Go.
• Ability to collaborate well across teams, build high-performing teams and mentor junior engineers.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA offices.

Bonus Points for Experience

• Building at-scale telemetry pipeline or query replay pipeline.
• Building or testing database query engine.
• Operationalizing machine learning models.
• Solid understanding of shipping end to end customer experiences across clients including browsers, apps and drivers.
• Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation, security and scalability.
• Track record of leading distributed technical teams.

Confidentiality and Company Policies

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.

Compensation and Benefits

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

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $236,000 - $339,200.
• 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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