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Engineering Manager – Snowtrail

Leads Snowtrail infrastructure team to deliver reliable customer workload testing via query replay and ML-optimized sampling. Requires 10+ years in distributed data systems, fluency in SQL/Java/C++/Python/Go, and strong leadership in high-velocity environments.

236k – 339k/yr
Hybrid10+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Snowtrail infrastructure team, enabling dedicated coverage for customer-specific workloads.
  • Ensure platform reliability, correctness, and performance through query replay.
  • Leverage machine learning models to sample queries and workloads, optimizing for cost and performance.
  • Evolve Snowtrail to incorporate new engine features while improving scalability, efficiency, and reliability.

Requirements

  • Strong passion and proven track record for shipping quality software in high code velocity environments.
  • 10+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems.
  • Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
  • Fluency in SQL, Java, C++, Python or Go.
  • Ability to collaborate well across teams, build high-performing teams and mentor junior engineers.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to work on-site at offices.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Building at-scale telemetry pipeline or query replay pipeline.
  • Building or testing database query engine.
  • 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.

Skills

SQLJavaC++PythonGoDistributed SystemsMachine LearningQuery ReplayTelemetry PipelinesMulti-Tenant Systems

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