Software Engineering Manager - Unistore

Snowflake•Menlo Park, CA

31d

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. We’re at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Our “Get It Done” culture allows everyone at Snowflake to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration. At the center of the data cloud is the Snowflake Database Engineering team. We are responsible for building the core query engine used to process the massive amounts of diverse data managed by our customers. And we’re focused on developing a new database product called Unistore which delivers transactional and analytical data together in a single platform. We’re building state-of-the-art query execution techniques and underlying data storage formats/representations to solve this exciting problem. We are looking for an outstanding Engineering Manager to join and grow the team. AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Lead a team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of a highly distributed and performant database system with a specific focus on building database internals, like high concurrency, low latency querying, transactions, compaction, etc. Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions relating to OLTP (online transaction processing) and HTAP (hybrid transactional and analytical processing) workloads. Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities Be comfortable delegating decisions for part of what’s under your purview to others Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed Partner with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules Know how and when to shift resources across areas to achieve execution goals and respond to lessons from production issues Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high 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

Requirements

7+ years of software engineering experience
2+ years of experience leading teams to build database system internals
Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query processing experience are highly preferred but not required
A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
Proven experience authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs
Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with open storage formats, delta lake, spark, Iceberg
Developing cloud-sale distributed database system internals
Experience growing and leading senior and junior engineers in the team

Responsibilities

Lead a team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of a highly distributed and performant database system with a specific focus on building database internals, like high concurrency, low latency querying, transactions, compaction, etc.
Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions relating to OLTP (online transaction processing) and HTAP (hybrid transactional and analytical processing) workloads.
Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities
Be comfortable delegating decisions for part of what’s under your purview to others
Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, reaching out to others for assistance as needed
Partner with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules
Know how and when to shift resources across areas to achieve execution goals and respond to lessons from production issues
Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high
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