Engineering Manager – Snowtrail

Snowflake•Bellevue, WA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We’re hiring a talented Software Engineering Manager to lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team at Snowflake. Snowtrail is the infrastructure that enables Snowflake to deliver dedicated coverage for customer-specific workloads. Its innovative approach allows Snowflake to precisely test and measure the impact of changes on individual customers, making it essential for ensuring the platform’s reliability, correctness, and performance. Through query replay, Snowtrail helps us catch regressions early. By leveraging machine learning models to intelligently sample queries and workloads, we continuously optimize for both cost and performance. Evolving Snowtrail to incorporate new engine features while improving scalability, efficiency, and reliability is central to our continued success.

Requirements

Strong passion and proven track record for shipping quality software in high code velocity environments
10+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Fluency in SQL, Java, C++, Python or Go.
Ability to collaborate well across teams, build high-performing teams and mentor junior engineers.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to work on-site at our San Mateo, CA or Bellevue, WA offices.

Nice To Haves

Building at-scale telemetry pipeline or query replay pipeline
Building or testing database query engine
Operationalizing Machine Learning models
Solid understanding of shipping end to end customer experiences across clients including browsers, apps and drivers
Multi-tenant systems, with focus on reliability, performance, isolation, security and scalability.
A track record of leading distributed technical teams

Responsibilities

Lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team at Snowflake.
Evolve Snowtrail to incorporate new engine features while improving scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
Build high-performing teams and mentor junior engineers.
Collaborate well across teams.
Follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
Abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
Keep customer information secure and confidential.

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