# Engineering Manager – Snowtrail

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA, Menlo Park, CA, San Mateo, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $236k – $339k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Java, C++, Python, Go, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Query Replay, Telemetry Pipelines, Multi-Tenant Systems
**Posted:** 2026-04-28

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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