# Senior Engineering Manager - OLTP

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $264k – $380k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Oltp, Database Internals, Distributed Systems, Transactions, Concurrency Control, Replication, Recovery, Storage Systems, Postgres, AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Observability, Incident Response, Ai-Assisted Development
**Posted:** 2026-08-15

> Leads multiple engineering teams building Snowflake’s OLTP database platform and cloud infrastructure at scale. The role combines technical strategy, database systems expertise, operational reliability, organizational growth, and cross-functional execution.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- 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 ownership, technical excellence, and execution.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted and agentic development practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Drive architecture and technical decisions involving transactions, concurrency control, low-latency query processing, storage, indexing, compaction, recovery, replication, and scalability.
- Ensure operational readiness and reliability of mission-critical database services through automation, observability, and operational safety.
- Balance 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.
- Recruit exceptional engineers and engineering leaders and develop team members into larger technical and leadership roles.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of 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 across organizational boundaries.
- Strong hands-on technical ability, including navigating complex codebases and contributing to system design and implementation.
- Experience with OLTP database internals or PostgreSQL internals.
- Significant cloud experience across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud, including highly available services.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.

## Compensation
- ATS-listed salary range: $264,000–$379,500 annually.

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