Senior Manager/Director of Engineering, Applied Performance Group

Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.

We’re at the forefront of the data revolution, committed to building the world’s greatest data and applications platform. Our “Get It Done” culture allows everyone at Snowflake to have an equal opportunity to innovate on new ideas, create work with a lasting impact, and excel in a culture of collaboration.

The Applied Performance Group (APG) Engineering team provides a strategic function at Snowflake, with direct impact to our product direction and bottom line. APG engineers are a key bridge between Engineering organizations and across sales, support, and services organizations. They are called upon to help with our most challenging customer performance issues as well as own strategic and competitive performance benchmarking.

We are looking for an outstanding Senior Engineering Manager to join and grow the team.

AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER/DIRECTOR AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Lead a team of talented performance engineers to use the newest technologies at Snowflake to make our customers successful

• Lead and participate in technical, design, and product discussions relating to the performance-critical areas of Snowflake

• Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities

• Be comfortable delegating decisions for part of what’s under your purview to others

• Know how and when to shift resources across areas to balance the needs of Sales, Support, and Engineering teams that work with APG

• Grow the team by recruiting and hiring new team members and growing existing ones

• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making

• Be an expert on the topics of Snowflake architecture, query processing, workload profiling, and Snowflake tools

• Be an expert in competitor solutions/products for analytics, data engineering, HTAP, and OLTP

• Represent Snowflake and act as performance sponsor for strategic customers.

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 10+ years of experience delivering Database, Data Warehouse, or Data Engineering implementations and/or benchmark initiatives

• 5+ years of experience leading teams

• Experience and ability to work directly with other engineering teams, product managers, and various levels of management

• Strong communication skills, able to effectively communicate ideas and technical concepts to both technical and executive audiences

• A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market

• Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology

• Multi-tenant systems, with a focus on reliability, performance and isolation

• Experience growing and leading other managers

WHY BE A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER FOR PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING AT SNOWFLAKE?

This is an excellent opportunity to:

• Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars working with and improving an industry-leading data management system that customers love

• Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow, both technically as well as a team leader

• Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly distributed, robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and more than a billion complex queries every day

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?