Engineering Manager (Data Processing)

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

Salary: CHF 204,000–293,250 per year

Company

Snowflake develops Observe, an AI-powered observability platform built on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud for processing logs, metrics, traces, and events at enterprise scale.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a backend engineering team working on compiler internals, distributed scheduling, query execution, and data materialization.
• Hire engineers and represent Observe and Snowflake throughout the candidate process.
• Plan and deliver product features with Observe product and backend teams while scaling existing systems.
• Collaborate with Snowflake engineering teams in Germany and the US to integrate Observe with Snowflake technologies and improve the underlying platform.
• Reduce technical debt, prioritize concurrent projects, and balance short-term operational needs with long-term architecture.
• Own operational health, including performance, compute cost efficiency, on-call load, support cost, production incidents, customer escalations, postmortems, and production code.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing a team of 5 or more engineers delivering complex backend or infrastructure systems in a fast-paced environment.
• Background in database systems, including query processing, query optimization, storage, or compilers.
• Solid experience building and operating distributed systems.
• Hands-on engineering skills, including writing, reviewing, and fixing production code.
• Ability to manage concurrent projects and prioritize clearly between them.
• Ability to balance operational needs with long-term architecture and make data-driven cost and performance tradeoffs.
• Experience running a team responsible for production services with on-call duties.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working across time zones and organizational boundaries.
• Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Experience with Snowflake or other large-scale data platforms or databases, including knowledge of their internals.
• Familiarity with the observability space.
• Experience building an enterprise-grade SaaS product.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup-style ownership and velocity combined with the reach and operational capabilities of Snowflake.
• AI-native, experimental working approach focused on testing emerging capabilities.
• Collaboration with engineering teams across Switzerland, Germany, and the US.
• Full-time position with annual compensation of CHF 204,000–293,250.