Senior Manager/Director of Engineering, Snowflake

• We are looking for an outstanding Senior Engineering Manager to join and grow the team
• 10+ years of experience delivering Database, Data Warehouse, or Data Engineering implementations and/or benchmark initiatives
• 5+ years of experience leading teams
• Experience and ability to work directly with other engineering teams, product managers, and various levels of management
• Strong communication skills, able to effectively communicate ideas and technical concepts to both technical and executive audiences
• A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
• Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills

Desirable

• The Applied Performance Group (APG) Engineering team provides a strategic function at Snowflake, with direct impact to our product direction and bottom line
• APG engineers are a key bridge between Engineering organizations and across sales, support, and services organizations
• They are called upon to help with our most challenging customer performance issues as well as own strategic and competitive performance benchmarking
• Lead a team of talented performance engineers to use the newest technologies at Snowflake to make our customers successful
• Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions relating to the performance-critical areas of Snowflake
• 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
• Know how and when to shift resources across areas to balance the needs of Sales, Support, and Engineering teams that work with APG
• 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
• Be an expert on the topics of Snowflake architecture, query processing, workload profiling, and Snowflake tools
• Be an expert in competitor solutions/products for analytics, data engineering, HTAP, and OLTP
• Represent Snowflake and act as performance sponsor for strategic customers
• Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars working with and improving an industry-leading data management system that customers love
• Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow, both technically as well as a team leader
• Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly distributed, robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and more than a billion complex queries every day