Engineering Manager in Menlo Park

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. Snowflake is expanding the boundaries of the Data Cloud to support mission-critical transactional workloads. Our goal is to deliver OLTP capabilities with the performance, reliability, simplicity, and scale customers expect from Snowflake, while creating a seamless experience across transactional and analytical data. We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager – OLTP to lead engineering teams and leaders building core transactional database technology and the cloud infrastructure required to operate it at scale. You will help define the architecture and roadmap, grow the organization, and drive technology from design through production. AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER – OLTP AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: Set technical and execution strategy for key areas of Snowflake's OLTP platform, translating product goals into architecture, roadmaps, and team plans. Lead and grow multiple engineering teams, developing managers and senior technical leaders while fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and execution. Drive adoption of AI and agentic development practices to improve engineering velocity, quality, and productivity across the software development lifecycle. Drive architecture and technical decisions in areas such as transactions, concurrency control, low-latency query processing, storage, indexing, compaction, recovery, replication, and scalability. Ensure operational readiness and reliability of mission-critical database services, meeting customer commitments for durability, availability, performance, and security through automation, observability, and operational safety. Drive trade-offs across consistency, latency, throughput, availability, scalability, durability, security, and cost. Lead major initiatives from design through implementation, launch, and production operation. Partner with Engineering, Product, and cross-functional leaders to define priorities, align roadmaps, plan staffing, and coordinate execution across organizational boundaries. Recruit exceptional engineers and engineering leaders, and develop existing team members into larger technical and leadership roles. OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE: 10+ years experience in database internals, OLTP databases, or distributed storage systems. 8+ years leading engineering teams, including multiple teams and managers. Deep experience with transactions, concurrency, consistency, replication, recovery, storage, and database performance. Strong understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development and its application across the engineering lifecycle. Experience operating mission-critical systems with high standards for availability, durability, observability, operational safety, and incident response. Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive alignment and influence across organizational boundaries. Strong hands-on technical ability, including navigating complex codebases and diving deep into system design and implementation. Experience with OLTP database internals or Postgres internals. Significant cloud experience across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including highly available services. BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience. WHY JOIN THE OLTP ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? This is an opportunity to help define the next generation of Snowflake's OLTP database platform and expand the workloads customers can bring to the Data Cloud. You will work on some of the hardest problems in database systems - transactions, concurrency, latency, storage, distributed systems, reliability, and cloud-scale operations - while building and developing the engineering organization needed to solve them. You will work alongside industry veterans and emerging leaders to create database technology that combines the simplicity and operational experience Snowflake customers expect with the performance and reliability required by mission-critical transactional applications. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

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. About the team The Apps & Experiences Platform team is powering systems and services for all our user facing apps including Snowsight , Snowflake Intelligence , and new mobile apps . Our mission is to craft innovative backend services, features, tools, infrastructure, and AI tooling that bring such products to life with delightful user experiences. As part of our team, you'll dive into a mix of building & managing platform infrastructure, and building AI self-serve tools to support the platform and its developer’s needs. We're passionate about building a platform that is highly reliable, available, maintainable, and scalable. We are a high growth AI data cloud company and we are looking for exceptional talent like you to help build and grow our infrastructure to scale us to the next level. AS MANAGER FOR APPS & EXPERIENCES PLATFORM TEAM, YOU WILL: Own the technical strategy and execution for the team, driving projects from initial idea formulation and detailed system design to high-quality implementation and successful deployment. Provide deep technical oversight by actively participating in design reviews, architecture discussions, and drilling into complex system implementations to ensure reliability and scalability. Serve as a subject matter expert , setting the bar for engineering excellence and coding best practices within the team. Mentor and coach engineers on complex technical challenges and career development, and grow a strong, diverse team through proactive hiring. Define team plans and deliverables while remaining accountable for the platform's availability, maintainability, and performance. Collaborate closely with the Product Management team to translate user needs and product requirements into clear technical roadmaps. Lead the improvement of our engineering processes, tooling, and standards , focusing on efficiency and velocity. Partner effectively with other engineering and cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration and influence the direction of the broader platform. WE ARE LOOKING FOR CANDIDATES WITH : 9+ years of experience in designing and building large-scale user-facing systems in production. 3+ years of experience in managing and leading teams building lean mission-critical, highly concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency systems that power user interfaces. Strong collaboration and communication skills. Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, is a plus. Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into the complex system design and implementation on a routine basis. BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

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. 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. A core part of the Database Engineering group is the Query Language team which is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining core SQL features, including advanced analytics, scripting, and the developer experience. We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to own and drive the effort to build core database capabilities to serve agentic workloads. You'll set the technical direction, build and grow the team behind it, and shape how the core engine and the SQL language evolve to serve this new class of workload. It's a rare chance to lead a foundational bet at the exact moment the industry is racing to solve it, with the scale, customer base, and platform to make your work matter to millions of queries a day. If you want your fingerprints on how the world's data platforms adapt to the age of AI agents, this is one of the best seats in the industry. AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO: Drive the evolution of core database and SQL capabilities to serve emerging AI and agentic workloads alongside traditional analytics Lead and grow a team of talented engineers in the design, development, and support of a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant SQL database system Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and developing engineering leaders Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team Collaborate with other local and global teams and leaders across the Engineering and Product Management organizations Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE: 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services) 5+ years of experience leading teams to build database system internals (experience leading managers is a strong plus) Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query processing experience is highly preferred but not required Exposure to AI, ML, or agent-driven workloads and how they consume data platforms 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 BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING: Background in database internals or large-scale data processing systems, e.g., Hadoop, Spark, etc. Prior experience running SQL database engineering teams Proven experience authoring product roadmaps, preparing and reviewing project design and test plan documents, and managing projects with JIRA WHY BE A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER FOR DATABASE ENGINEERING AT SNOWFLAKE? This is an excellent opportunity to: Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building the industry-leading data management system that customers love Shape how the core database serves the next generation of AI and agentic workloads, a problem the whole industry is racing to solve Take charge of your own career. This role will push you to grow, both technically and 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 Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com