Senior Manager - Engineering Systems AI Developer Experience
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.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software engineering experience
- 5+ years of experience leading a technical engineering team with a strong mix of people leadership, roadmap ownership, and hands-on technical judgment.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience working with the latest AI tools, particularly in the productivity space.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, secure buy-in, and bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-functional work.
- A pragmatic, customer-obsessed mindset and a bias for measurable impact through reliability, performance, and ease of use.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with developer productivity tooling
- AI-assisted engineering workflows
- Modern CI/test platform modernization efforts
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow the ES AI DevEx team while creating a high-energy, cohesive environment with strong planning, ownership, and career development.
- Deliver the vision and roadmap for transforming the SDLC for all Snowflake engineers.
- Drive measurable improvements in code review latency, ensure Snowflake developers can use the latest harnesses and models, and create the golden paths that agentic codebases are built upon.
- Act as an agent of clarity in a space that is moving fast, making high quality decisions quickly by keeping up with the latest developments in the industry.
- Own operational excellence for the area, including on-call health, incident response, postmortems, and balancing project delivery with ongoing maintenance and support work.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
