Skip to content

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 – 339kBellevue, WAMenlo Park, CASan Mateo, CAEngineering ManagementHybrid10+ YOE

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

Manager, Firmware Engineering

Hands-on manager leading firmware, software, and systems engineers on vehicle compute platforms at Zoox. Drives projects from feasibility to rollout, collaborating across hardware, safety, and autonomy teams. Requires 10+ years engineering (5+ management) and firmware expertise.

241k – 289kFoster City, CAEngineering ManagementOn-site10+ YOECC++

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Managed Platform Services

Senior technical leader anchoring distributed systems depth across Crusoe Cloud's Managed Platform Services. Owns performance engineering, operational excellence, and long-term architecture for 10x scale across all platform domains.

245k – 295kSan Francisco, CAEngineering ManagementOn-site7+ YOEGoOn-Call

RVP, Priority Support Engineering

Leads regional Priority Support Engineering team, owning paid support sales cycle, customer relationships, proactive advisory delivery, and revenue targets for Snowflake enterprise customers. Requires 10+ years in enterprise support leadership or senior field sales at cloud/SaaS companies.

245k – 306kNew York, NY +2Engineering ManagementHybrid10+ YOEAISnowflake

Systems Engineering Manager

Hands-on engineering manager leading experienced engineers on distributed computing, large-scale data, and performance optimization. Requires 10+ years experience including 3 in leadership, with deep systems expertise.

250k – 350kNew York, NY +1Engineering ManagementHybrid10+ YOECC++

Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer leads technical direction, owns critical systems, mentors engineers, and ships customer-facing products at a fast-growing AI startup. Requires 4+ years experience in startups, strong leadership, and expertise in web tech or AI integrations.

250k – 300kSan Francisco, CAEngineering ManagementOn-site4+ YOEAWSReact