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SnowflakeSnowflakeMenlo Park, CA

Engineering Manager - Query Language

Lead and grow a team of engineers building core SQL database features and query engine internals for Snowflake's data platform. Requires 10+ years building large-scale systems and 5+ years leading database engineering teams.

264k – 380k/yr
On-site10+ YOEEngineering Management

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead a growing team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant SQL database system
  • Hire great engineers to build an outstanding team
  • Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and developing engineering leaders
  • Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team
  • Collaborate with other local and global teams/leaders in the Engineering and Product Management organizations
  • Use strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high
  • Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services)
  • 5+ years of experience leading teams to build database system internals (experience leading managers is a strong plus)
  • Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query processing experience highly preferred
  • Track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
  • Proven experience authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs
  • Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills

Nice-to-Haves

  • Background in database internals or large scale data processing systems, e.g., Hadoop, Spark
  • Prior experience running SQL database engineering teams
  • Proven experience with authoring product roadmap, preparing and reviewing project design and test plan documents, managing projects with JIRA

Skills

Distributed SystemsDatabase InternalsSQLQuery ProcessingHadoopSparkJiraRoadmap PlanningTeam LeadershipTechnical Hiring
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