Engineering Manager

The role

You will provide technical leadership for the Postgres dataplane and orchestration/control plane to deliver a managed service. You will define architecture and build the roadmap for a cloud-native Postgres service.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership across the Postgres dataplane and orchestration/control plane.
• Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties.
• Build the roadmap while delivering it.
• Balance long-term thinking with immediate business needs.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs.
• Ensure operational readiness of services regarding durability, availability, performance, and security.
• Solve real business needs at large scale using software engineering and analytical skills.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services).
• 3+ years of experience building, managing, and leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Track record of delivering large-scale, resilient systems and services in production.
• Significant experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong hands-on technical ability.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Postgres as an end user, operator, or administrator.
• Strong understanding of database fundamentals and tradeoffs.

Nice to have

• experience leading managers

About the company

Snowflake is building a fully managed, cloud-native Postgres service. The company aims to empower enterprises and is building a Cloud Data and AI Platform.