# Senior Engineering Manager-PostgreSQL

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $264k – $380k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Postgres, AWS, Azure, GCP, Distributed Systems, Databases, Kubernetes, High Availability, System Design, Cloud Services
**Posted:** 2026-02-02

> Lead engineering teams building Snowflake's cloud-native Postgres service, providing technical leadership for dataplane and control plane, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. Requires 10+ years in large-scale systems and 5+ years managing teams with deep Postgres expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Provide strong technical leadership across Postgres dataplane and orchestration/control plane (HA, upgrades, backups, scaling, automation, operational safety).
- Break down problems and build consensus for scalable, timely solutions.
- Build and deliver the roadmap as a problem solver and finder.
- Balance long-term thinking with immediate business needs.
- Understand trade-offs in consistency, performance, scaling, and costs.
- Ensure operational readiness and meet customer commitments on durability, availability, performance, and security.
- Solve business needs at scale using software engineering and analytical skills.

## Requirements
- 10+ years building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services).
- 5+ years building, managing, and leading high-performing engineering teams (leading managers a plus).
- Strong track record delivering large-scale, resilient production systems.
- Significant cloud experience (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) with high availability and operational rigor.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional alignment.
- Strong hands-on technical ability; navigate complex codebases and system design.
- BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Postgres depth: experience as user, operator, or administrator; understanding of database fundamentals and tradeoffs.

**Nice-to-haves:** Love of Postgres with solid fundamentals.

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