Engineering Manager, Cloud Observability

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Build the future of data. 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.

You’ll work with some of the brightest engineers in the industry. To be successful, you’ll need to be a strong people manager,  deeply technical and capable of holding your own with other strong peers.  You possess excellent communication, collaboration, and diplomacy skills. You have experience practicing infrastructure-as-code, including using tools like Terraform, Ansible. You’ll have strong software development fundamentals, and guide your team to deliver results.  In addition, you’ll have strong systems knowledge and troubleshooting abilities.

If you love solving problems at scale, prefer to write scalable, reliable, and testable software to automate infrastructure management, are an ace troubleshooter, and are deeply technical, then this is the role for you!

AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER - CLOUD OBSERVABILITY AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

  • Build and Manage a team of talented Engineers that deploy and scale our Observability infrastructure
  • Coach, mentor and guide growth conversations with engineering team members 
  • Contribute design discussions, and help to drive infrastructure strategy
  • Define best practices around making our systems and services measurable and work with our various teams to get those best practices applied
  • Collaborate with our Application Engineering teams to ensure our Applications are emitting the right metrics
  • Collect, aggregate and visualize the collected metrics to provide actionable insight

OUR IDEAL ENGINEERING MANAGER - CLOUD OBSERVABILITY WILL HAVE:

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, engineering management 
  • Experience as a team builder and people manager 
  • Excellent interpersonal skills. Strong programming skills  
  • Highly technical with a track record of implementing highly reliable software 
  • Prior experience working alongside, or managing an Engineering team to collect, aggregate and visualize insights into a complicated technical product

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

  • Prior experience with a Cloud infrastructure service provider, or an extensive “private cloud” environment
  • Extremely large installation or High Performance Computing (HPC) experience
  • Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
  • Prior experience with high performance networks
  • Some position may require access to U.S. export-controlled technologies or technical data