Snowflake · 1 week ago
Engineering Manager - Openflow
US-CA-Menlo Park
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$236K/yr - $339K/yrSnowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and they are seeking an Engineering Manager for their Openflow team. The role involves leading a team of engineers to build and manage Snowflake's data integration platform, ensuring high-quality delivery and mentoring team members for growth and success.
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Responsibilities
Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers building Openflow’s control plane, data plane, and connectors—the core of Snowflake’s open, extensible, and secure data integration platform for real-time, bi-directional data movement
Translate product strategy into an executable engineering roadmap for your area, partnering closely with PM, TPM, and other stakeholders to plan, sequence, and deliver impactful features and reliability improvements
Organize and run the team for fast, high-quality delivery, ensuring engineers are working on the right problems, managing scope and trade-offs, and keeping quality, reliability, and operability standards high
Own your area in production: stay on top of reliability, performance, and support for your services and connectors, lead responses to incidents and escalations, and drive postmortems and follow-up work that continuously improves our platform
Manage technical debt and support burden intentionally, maintaining a clear view of code health, test coverage, regression patterns, and support costs—and balancing these against new feature work
Mentor and develop engineers across IC1–IC4 levels, giving clear, actionable feedback; helping them set growth plans; and providing the right mix of autonomy and support so they can succeed and advance
Have the hard conversations when needed, addressing underperformance, misalignment with Snowflake values, and behavior that undermines team health—with empathy, clarity, and follow-through
Hire and retain exceptional talent, effectively representing Snowflake and Openflow to candidates, closing strong engineers (including those with competing offers), and building a diverse, inclusive team
Model Snowflake’s values and strong engineering leadership, creating a culture where people feel safe to speak up, collaborate across functions and time zones, and focus on what’s best for customers and for Snowflake as a whole
Contribute hands-on when appropriate, using solid coding and design skills at the IC1–IC4 level to review designs and code, unblock the team on complex technical issues, and maintain deep enough context to make sound technical decisions
Qualification
Required
Proven experience managing a team > 10 engineers delivering backend, platform, or data infrastructure, ideally in a high-scale, cloud-native environment
Strong technical background in distributed systems or data platforms, with prior hands-on experience designing, building, and operating services involving reliability, performance, and scalability trade-offs
Demonstrated ability to grow organizational capacity: Mentoring engineers across junior and senior levels, supporting both day-to-day execution and long-term career development. Proactively spotting areas where people need help and addressing them early through coaching, support, or structural changes. Keeping team health and morale high, especially through ambiguity and change
Track record of effective product development and execution: Translating product requirements into clear technical plans and milestones. Partnering closely with PM/TPM/Security on quarterly planning, tracking, and feedback loops. Raising risks early—schedules, reliability, scope, or design—and course-correcting with stakeholders
Deep sense of ownership for an area of the product, including: Understanding and managing technical debt, test gaps, and regression patterns. Knowing the support profile of your features (incidents, Sev1s, escalations) and driving it down over time. Working toward clear success metrics for reliability, performance, and adoption—and pushing to improve them
Leadership behaviors aligned with Snowflake's values: Putting customers and team success first; operating with integrity, openness, and respect. Being accessible, approachable, and emotionally intelligent, creating an inclusive environment where different perspectives are valued. Stepping up in crises—customer escalations, production incidents, security issues—to lead investigation, mitigation, communication, and long-term fixes
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working across multiple teams and time zones, and able to explain complex technical and trade-off decisions to diverse audiences
Experience hiring and closing strong engineering talent, including selling the opportunity and inspiring candidates to join
BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience as a senior IC and/or manager in high-scale engineering teams; prior experience as a Staff/Principal-level engineer is a strong plus
Preferred
Experience in data integration, streaming, or workflow systems (e.g., Apache NiFi, Kafka, Flink, Airflow) or data/analytics platforms, and familiarity with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
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
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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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