Engineering Manager - Compute Service

Snowflake • Menlo Park, CA

67d • $222,000 - $339,250

About The Position

Join the Snowflake team and help build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Snowflake's founders designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. Our product runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, providing high availability and data protection. The Compute Service team is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow a team responsible for serverless compute systems, balancing usability, performance, and cost.

Requirements

• 9+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting large scale systems in production.
• 2+ years experience managing a group of junior and senior engineers.
• Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes.
• Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, and storage.
• 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.
• Experience with building serverless cloud infrastructure - AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud Functions.
• BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of talented engineers in solving real business needs at large scale.
• Design and implement scalable distributed systems for our services layer.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and collaborate with engineers, product managers, and Technical Program Managers.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability, and costs to build solutions.
• Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet commitments regarding availability and performance.
• Develop future leaders by providing mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities.
• Delegate decisions for parts of the team’s work.
• Translate product requirements into engineering work for the team.
• Partner with other leaders on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules.
• Grow the team by recruiting and hiring new members and developing existing ones.
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while promoting practical decision making.

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.
• Participation in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees