# Engineering Manager - Query Language

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Menlo Park, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $264k – $380k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Database Internals, SQL, Query Processing, Hadoop, Spark, Jira, Roadmap Planning, Team Leadership, Technical Hiring
**Posted:** 2026-06-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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