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Tech Lead Manager - SUT Team

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-WA-Bellevue$236k - $339.2kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Tech Lead Manager leading Snowflake’s System Under Test (SUT) team to evolve how Snowflake engineers test the product locally and at scale in CI, delivering a reliable, low-latency, cost-efficient developer experience across CI, developer infrastructure, and product engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and grow the SUT team while creating a high-energy, cohesive environment with strong planning, ownership, and career development.
  • Own the roadmap and execution for SUT rollout across development environments, CI and AI workflows.
  • Drive measurable improvements in startup reliability, latency, and cost, using clear SLOs, dashboards, and operational metrics to guide decisions and raise the bar on execution.
  • Serve as the technical anchor for the SUT domain, shaping architecture and guiding the evolution from legacy systems to a composable, containerized platform.
  • Own operational excellence for the area, including on-call health, incident response, postmortems, and balancing project delivery with ongoing maintenance and support work.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
  • 1+ years of experience leading a technical engineering team with a strong mix of people leadership, roadmap ownership, and hands-on technical judgment.
  • Strong systems thinking and comfort working across distributed systems, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and modern engineering tooling.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, secure buy-in, and bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-functional work.
  • A pragmatic, customer-obsessed mindset and a bias for measurable impact through reliability, performance, and ease of use.
  • Bonus points for experience with developer productivity tooling, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and modern CI/test platform modernization efforts.
Last updated Jul 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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