Engineering Manager, Release Validation

The role

You will lead and grow a team of engineers working on test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling. You will own the validation platform and set the strategy for release validation to ensure safe and efficient continuous deployment.

What you will do

• Lead and grow the team by hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers.
• Set strategy and roadmap for release validation.
• Own the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of distributed regression and workload test frameworks, pre-production environments, and release validation pipeline.
• Improve test health across the company by working with feature teams to reduce flaky, non-hermetic, duplicate, and low-value tests.
• Cut down release blockers by improving failure tracing and speeding up triage.
• Drive AI and automation for failure analysis and automated routing.
• Act as the main partner to Release Engineering and engineering leaders on release quality.

Required qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers at different career stages.
• Experience building and running large-scale CI/CD, test infrastructure, or developer productivity platforms.
• Strong technical background to review designs and make architecture tradeoffs.
• Solid grasp of test strategy including regression vs. workload testing, hermeticity, flakiness, coverage tradeoffs, and release gating.
• Experience driving work across many teams and influencing without authority.
• Data-driven leadership style using metrics to prioritize and show impact.
• Strong communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs to engineers and executives.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

About the company

Snowflake builds highly reliable and scalable products. The company is powering the era of the agentic enterprise.