Snowflake · 1 month ago
Engineering Manager - Freepool
US-WA-Bellevue
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$236K/yr - $339K/yr
9+ years expSnowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and they are seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Freepool team. This role involves leading a team of engineers to design and implement scalable distributed systems, ensuring operational readiness, and developing future leaders through mentorship and coaching.
AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud Data ServicesData ManagementEnterprise SoftwareSoftware
Responsibilities
Lead a team of talented engineers in solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
Designing and implementing scalable distributed systems for our services layer
Analyzing fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solving them
Leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams
Understanding trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services
Ensuring operational readiness of the services and meeting the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance
Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities
Be comfortable with delegating decisions for part of what is under your leadership to others
Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, and reach out to others for assistance as needed
Partner with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules
Grow the team by recruiting and hiring new team members and growing existing ones
Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision making
Qualification
Required
9+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production
2+ years experience in managing a group of junior and senior engineers
Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring
Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale
Background in capacity management, resource orchestration, or cluster scheduling
A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams
Proven experience authoring roadmap documents and project plans
Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills
Track record of identifying and delivering creative solutions
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred
Company
Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse as a service designed for the cloud.
5001-10000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (428)
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2023 (154)
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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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