Engineering Manager (Query Language)

Location: Onsite in Menlo Park, CA, USA

Salary: $236,000–$339,200

Company

Snowflake is a product company focused on building the world's greatest data and applications platform for enterprises.

What you will do

• Lead a growing team in the design, development, and support of a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant SQL database system.
• Hire and support engineers in their career development, providing clear feedback and developing leaders.
• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team.
• Collaborate with other local and global teams/leaders in Engineering and Product Management.
• Use your technical leadership to reliably deliver complex projects while keeping quality high.
• Foster a culture of creativity, innovation, and practical decision-making.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading teams to build database system internals.
• Strong engineering fundamentals.
• A 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.
• Must have legal authorization to work in the US.

Nice to have

• 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 roadmaps, preparing and reviewing project design and test plan documents, and managing projects with JIRA.

Culture & Benefits

• Lead and grow an exceptional team building an industry-leading data management system.
• Opportunity for significant technical and leadership career growth.
• Deliver essential components of a highly distributed, robust, and secure enterprise SaaS platform.
• Culture focused on impact, innovation, and collaboration.
• Competitive compensation and benefits for US employees.