# Tech Lead Manager

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Bellevue, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $236k – $339k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, CI/CD, Software Engineering, leadership
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Lead a highly technical team building Snowflake's System Under Test (SUT) platform to provide reliable, low-latency, cost-efficient testing for engineers in local, CI, and AI workflows. Requires 10+ years software engineering experience including 1+ years of technical leadership, strong systems and Kubernetes knowledge, and a focus on measurable improvements in reliability and performance.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow the SUT team while creating a high-energy, cohesive environment with strong planning, ownership, and career development.
- Own the roadmap and execution for SUT rollout across development environments, CI and AI workflows.
- Drive measurable improvements in startup reliability, latency, and cost, using clear SLOs, dashboards, and operational metrics to guide decisions and raise the bar on execution.
- Serve as the technical anchor for the SUT domain, shaping architecture and guiding the evolution from legacy systems to a composable, containerized platform.
- Own operational excellence for the area, including on-call health, incident response, postmortems, and balancing project delivery with ongoing maintenance and support work.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- 1+ years of experience leading a technical engineering team with a strong mix of people leadership, roadmap ownership, and hands-on technical judgment.
- Strong systems thinking and comfort working across distributed systems, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and modern engineering tooling.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, secure buy-in, and bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-functional work.
- A pragmatic, customer-obsessed mindset and a bias for measurable impact through reliability, performance, and ease of use.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with developer productivity tooling, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and modern CI/test platform modernization efforts.

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