We’re looking for an exceptional Engineering Manager to manage and grow the Snowflake Service Runtime team in Berlin, Germany. The charter of the team is to build the elastic, high-performance computing platform that underpins the diverse workloads running on the Snowflake Data Cloud. The team works on problems involving large scale distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, metadata storage, cloud infrastructure, and more.

AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO:

• Set the strategic vision for your team and be accountable for team plans and deliverables
• Drive team projects from idea formulation, through design and implementation collaborating with partner teams
• Be able to shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and to respond to lessons from customer and production issues
• Provide strong technical leadership to the team with a focus on quality, performance, and security
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making
• Grow and build a strong, healthy, and diverse team by participating in all steps of the recruiting process from sourcing to closing
• Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship and coaching
• Collaborate with other engineering teams and cross functional teams in Berlin and world-wide

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• 5+ years of engineering management experience
• Proven track record of recruiting, hiring, leading and growing technical teams
• Rock solid engineering fundamentals with distributed systems experience 
• Extensive and strong development experience in cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Extremely strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Strong hands-on skills. Can drill deep into the complex system design and implementation when needed
• Experience in a SaaS environment - defining and delivering on service availability and quality SLOs 
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Comfortable working across multiple teams/ time zones and interacting with customers
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience

AS A LEADER ON OUR TEAM, YOU WILL:

• Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building 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 leader
• Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly parallel, robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and billions of complex queries every day

WHY BE A  SERVICE TEAM ENGINEERING MANAGER IN BERLIN?

As a leader in our team you will:

• Lead and grow an exceptional team of industry veterans and rising stars building an industry-leading cloud data platform  that customers love
• Take charge of your own career – this role will push you to grow, both technically as well as a leader
• Learn at scale as you and your team deliver essential components of a highly parallel, robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services may thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries every day.