Snowflake · 2 weeks ago
Senior Engineering Manager - Observability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$264K/yr - $380K/yrSnowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. We're looking for an experienced Senior Manager to lead our Observability team, where you'll partner with engineering leadership to define the product roadmap and drive the team's vision while mentoring and developing high-performing engineers.
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Responsibilities
Lead the Vision & Strategy: Partner with engineering leadership to drive the Observability vision and shape the product roadmap
Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of high-performing engineers who are building a state-of-the-art, cloud-based environment. You'll also be responsible for recruiting and nurturing new talent
Collaboration & Cross-functional Work: Work across the organization and with different functions to deliver high-quality products. This includes collaborating with design and engineering directors, managers, and architects to drive excellence
Drive Excellence: Promote data-driven decision-making by using information collected across the Snowflake stack to ensure user needs are met. You'll develop APIs, infrastructure, tools, and training to provide engineers with deeper insights into application performance and service health
Operational Management: Balance strategic and operational needs, from pitching ideas and negotiating trade-offs to coordinating resources. Present core service performance metrics and health in operational meetings to discuss ongoing system improvements
Qualification
Required
You have experience leading large software teams that have delivered complex, impactful products
You're passionate about building and running distributed systems in a production environment
You have a proven track record of effective people management, leadership, and mentoring
You're skilled at working collaboratively across different functions and remote teams
You have an appetite for ensuring systems are observable, which provides insights for engineers to understand and validate changes to their software
You're committed to fostering good engineering practices like fast iterative development, testing, continuous integration, and continuous build/test/release automation
Preferred
Expert knowledge of modern observability practices
Proven ability to collaborate with Technical Program Managers and Architects on the design, development, and rollout of highly technical observability initiatives
Deep knowledge of logs, metrics, traces, and alerts, and how to use this data to help developers and operators make quick decisions
Experience with container deployment and orchestration technologies at scale, including service discovery, deployments, monitoring, and load balancing
Experience with development and deployment in hosted cloud environments like AWS, Azure, or GCP
Benefits
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
Other company benefits
Company
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.
Founded in 2012
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.03BKey Investors
Sequoia CapitalICONIQ GrowthAltimeter Capital
2022-04-19Post Ipo Equity· $621.46M
2020-09-16IPO
2020-02-07Series G· $479M
Leadership Team
Sridhar Ramaswamy
Chief Executive Officer
Benoit Dageville
Snowflake Co-founder, President of Product
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