Engineering Manager - Freepool

Snowflake•Bellevue, WA

55d

About The Position

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow. Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it. Our team is called the Freepool team, one of the core compute infrastructure teams at Snowflake for both internal and external customers. Snowflake’s free pools are pre-provisioned compute VMs that guarantee fast resume times and availability; they are mission-critical for customer experience in warehousing and related products. You will own these and drive the evolution of these for all compute at Snowflake ensuring that we meet cost, customer experience and availability expectations. We are actively looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow this team. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the vision, architecture and approach for the core services that the rest of Snowflake operates on. AS A MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL LEAD A TEAM OF TALENTED ENGINEERS IN:

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

Track record of identifying and delivering creative solutions.
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.

Responsibilities

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.