Senior Engineering Manager-PostgreSQL

Snowflake•Menlo Park, CA

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. Snowflake is reimagining what a modern Postgres experience can be. The Snowflake Postgres team is building a fully managed, cloud-native Postgres service that delivers the reliability, performance, and scale developers expect that is paired with a data experience that seamlessly ties into Snowflake. As a Senior Engineer Manager, you'll help define the architecture, push the boundaries of Postgres in the cloud, and shape one of Snowflake's most strategic new products

Requirements

10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services).
5+ years of experience building, managing, and leading high-performing engineering teams (and experience leading managers is a strong plus).
Strong track record of delivering large-scale, resilient systems and services in production.
Significant experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) and building services with high availability and operational rigor.
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional alignment and influence across org boundaries.
Strong hands-on technical ability; comfortable navigating complex codebases and diving deep into system design and implementation.
BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
Postgres depth: experience with Postgres as an end user, operator, or administrator; strong understanding of database fundamentals and tradeoffs (consistency, performance, scaling limits, cost).
Love of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals.

Responsibilities

Provide strong technical leadership across both the Postgres dataplane and the orchestration/control plane required to deliver a managed service (HA, upgrades, backups, scaling, automation, and operational safety).
Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties to reach solutions that are scalable, tractable, and timely.
Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder by building the roadmap while delivering it.
Leverage your experience to balance long-term thinking with more immediate business needs.
Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the commitments to our customers regarding durability, availability, performance, and security.
Solve real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.