Tech Lead Manager - SUT Team

The role

You will lead the System Under Test (SUT) team to evolve how engineers test the Snowflake product locally and in CI. You will set direction and partner across Engineering Systems and product teams to deliver a reliable, low-latency, and cost-efficient developer experience.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and grow the SUT team.
• Own the roadmap and execution for SUT rollout across development environments, CI and AI workflows.
• Drive improvements in startup reliability, latency, and cost using SLOs, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Serve as the technical anchor for the SUT domain and shape architecture.
• Guide the evolution from legacy systems to a composable, containerized platform.
• Own operational excellence including on-call health, incident response, and postmortems.
• Balance project delivery with ongoing maintenance and support work.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• 1+ years of experience leading a technical engineering team with a mix of people leadership, roadmap ownership, and hands-on technical judgment
• Strong systems thinking
• Comfort working across distributed systems, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and modern engineering tooling
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• experience with developer productivity tooling
• AI-assisted engineering workflows
• modern CI/test platform modernization efforts

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise and is scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.