Data Lake Engineering Manager

Join The Snowflake Team

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

We are hiring a dynamic and accomplished Engineering Manager to join our Data Lake team. In this role, you will lead and expand a talented team building on cutting edge open source data lake technologies. You'll drive innovation, foster collaboration within the open source community, and ensure delivery of robust and scalable solutions for our enterprise customers. You will play a critical role in the growth and success of Snowflake's business as we shape the future of open data management at scale!

As an Engineering Manager in the Data Lake team, you must possess a strong technical foundation with distributed systems, along with prior experience leading and growing engineering teams. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong critical thinking, clear communication, and strong decision making skills. If you have this mix of skills, and a passion for working in one of the world's largest data domains, we'd love to hear from you!

As An Engineering Manager At Snowflake, You Will :

• Lead a team of talented and high-performing engineers in the design, development, and support of highly distributed and scalable data platforms, with a specific focus on optimizing and enabling workloads on top of open table and open catalog formats like Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris (incubating).
• Lead and participate in technical design and roadmap discussions relating to areas like Query Processing, Metadata Management, Performance, Scalability, and Open Source Interoperability
• Have direct ownership to grow a strategic and emerging part of Snowflake's business to address new and expanding market opportunities in Data Lake and Data Analytics workloads
• Have direct impact on growth and development of your team through the full lifecycle of recruiting, hiring, mentorship, coaching, and identifying growth opportunities
• Demonstrate strong communication skills and the ability to work seamlessly across teams and organizations. Partner well with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organization on rhythms like annual & quarterly planning, staffing, project schedules, resource allocation, and more
• Be comfortable and effective in delegation - effectively leveraging Senior & Principal engineers to maximize your team's impact
• Know when and how to shift resources across areas to achieve execution goals, while also ensuring effective ownership and longer-term alignment of work and skills
• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, partnering closely with peers in Product and other disciplines - to make our vision a reality!
• Use your strong technical foundation to set the bar for your team - build to last, deliver, and keep the quality exceptionally high!
• Foster a healthy and diverse team culture

Our Ideal Engineering Manager Will Have :

Bonus Points For Experience With The Following :

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.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

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