Director of Engineering, Snowflake
Test Framework
$268-437k
+ Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan
3-5 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
Job no longer available
AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$268-437k
+ Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan
3-5 days a week in office (Menlo Park, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a passionate and influential leader who can lead a team of diverse, smart, and driven engineers to rapidly deliver high quality developer products while successfully balancing business requirements and priorities, we are looking for you
- 10+ years of Engineering Leadership experience with a core focus in either large scale distributed systems or full stack SaaS services
- 5+ years of hands-on technical leadership experience in one or more of: engineering productivity, developer infrastructure, tooling, quality engineering, CI/CD, SDLC, etc
- Strong passion and proven track record for shipping quality software in high code velocity environments
- Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- Ability to collaborate well across teams, build high-performing teams and mentor engineering managers
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Proven ability to align a vision, lead, and measure success through data: Metrics, KPIs, etc
- Expertise working in the data warehousing/database/analytics product space or relevant large scale distributed systems is a plus
- Hands-on experience working with cloud technologies (GCP, AWS and/or Azure) or related systems infrastructure preferred
- Expertise with tools such as Git, JIRA, Jenkins, Kubernetes, etc a plus
- Bachelors in Computer Science or related majors required
- Ability to work on-site at our Menlo Park, CA or Bellevue, WA offices
Desirable
- Building at-scale test frameworks
- Building or testing database query engines
- 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
What the job involves
- We are actively seeking a Director of Engineering to lead these growing teams
- Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership and oversight of the Test Framework teams while actively driving the recruiting and hiring of top SWE talent
- Apply your extensive software engineering experience, to help the teams build best in industry systems and tools for our internal customers
- Collaborate with engineering and product leaders to define and execute long term strategies for engineering systems and tools
- Lead/contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solving complex engineering problems in the internal tools space
- Design, roll out and drive adoption of global test automation practices
- Up-level our product quality through more comprehensive testing in the areas of performance, availability, security and privacy
- Manage, Grow, and Mentor the teams that have the most day to day impact on the success of the overall Engineering organization
Our take
Developed as a fresh alternative to the archaic systems of data governance and information silos, Snowflake is a frictionless cloud data platform that removes the barriers preventing organizations of all sizes from unleashing the true value of their data.
The company equips organizations with a single, integrated platform that offers the only data warehouse built for the cloud; instant, secure and governed access to their entire network of data; and a core architecture to enable many types of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications.
Major competitors include Azure, SQL and AWS, and Snowflake has managed to keep ahead of the competition, cementing itself as a global force. Across its 1300+ partners, the company's cloud manages over 250PB of data (with more than 515 million data workloads running every day). Its continued focus on product R&D and partnership expansion have Snowflake well-positioned to manage itself amidst the competition.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2020
$479m
LATE VC
Oct 2018
$450m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance plans
- Health savings accounts
- Robust retirement plans
- Life and disability insurance
- Weekly online lunch and learns
- Virtual workout classes
- Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
- On-demand mental health and wellness programs
- Fertility benefits and family planning resources
- Generous time-off and various leave plans
- Onsite and Remote Work
- Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
- New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Quarterly bonus or commission program
Company HQ
Bozeman, MT
Leadership
Benoit Dageville
(Co-Founder)Benoit, a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning databases, founded Snowflake after 10+ years at Oracle as a lead architect. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has 270+ patents.
Thierry Cruanes
(Co-Founder)Thierry is a leading expert in query optimization and parallel execution. He has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Database Systems and is a named inventor on 200+ patents.
Sridhar Ramaswamy
(Chief Executive Officer)Sridhar joined Snowflake in 2023 via the Neeva acquisition as SVP of AI and later became CEO. He co-founded Neeva and previously led Google’s Ads business, growing it from $1.5B to $100B.
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