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Snowflake · 2 weeks ago

Senior Engineering Manager - Observability

Snowflake 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

Distributed systemsCloud environmentsObservability practicesPeople managementCollaboration skillsData-driven decision-makingEngineering practicesTechnical Program ManagementContainer orchestrationMentoring

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

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Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.

H1B Sponsorship

Snowflake has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (428)
2024 (281)
2023 (154)
2022 (182)
2021 (113)
2020 (98)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$2.03B
Key Investors
Sequoia CapitalICONIQ GrowthAltimeter Capital
2022-04-19Post Ipo Equity· $621.46M
2020-09-16IPO
2020-02-07Series G· $479M

Leadership Team

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Sridhar Ramaswamy
Chief Executive Officer
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Benoit Dageville
Snowflake Co-founder, President of Product
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