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Senior Engineering Manager-PostgreSQL

Lead engineering teams building Snowflake's cloud-native Postgres service, providing technical leadership for dataplane and control plane, ensuring scalability, reliability, and operational excellence. Requires 10+ years in large-scale systems and 5+ years managing teams with deep Postgres expertise.

264k – 380kMenlo Park, CAEngineering ManagementOnsite10+ YOE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Provide strong technical leadership across Postgres dataplane and orchestration/control plane (HA, upgrades, backups, scaling, automation, operational safety).
  • Break down problems and build consensus for scalable, timely solutions.
  • Build and deliver the roadmap as a problem solver and finder.
  • Balance long-term thinking with immediate business needs.
  • Understand trade-offs in consistency, performance, scaling, and costs.
  • Ensure operational readiness and meet customer commitments on durability, availability, performance, and security.
  • Solve business needs at scale using software engineering and analytical skills.

Requirements

  • 10+ years building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services).
  • 5+ years building, managing, and leading high-performing engineering teams (leading managers a plus).
  • Strong track record delivering large-scale, resilient production systems.
  • Significant cloud experience (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) with high availability and operational rigor.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional alignment.
  • Strong hands-on technical ability; navigate complex codebases and system design.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • Postgres depth: experience as user, operator, or administrator; understanding of database fundamentals and tradeoffs.

Nice-to-haves: Love of Postgres with solid fundamentals.

Skills

PostgresAWSAzureGCPDistributed SystemsDatabasesKubernetesHigh AvailabilitySystem DesignCloud Services

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