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Senior Engineering Manager - OLTP

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (US-CA-Menlo Park)$264k - $379.5kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Engineering Manager to lead multiple teams building core transactional database technology and cloud infrastructure at scale, defining architecture and roadmap, and driving delivery from design to production.

Responsibilities

  • Set technical and execution strategy for key areas of Snowflake's OLTP platform, translating product goals into architecture, roadmaps, and team plans.
  • Lead and grow multiple engineering teams, developing managers and senior technical leaders while fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and execution.
  • Drive adoption of AI and agentic development practices to improve engineering velocity, quality, and productivity across the software development lifecycle.
  • Drive architecture and technical decisions in areas such as transactions, concurrency control, low-latency query processing, storage, indexing, compaction, recovery, replication, and scalability.
  • Ensure operational readiness and reliability of mission-critical database services, meeting customer commitments for durability, availability, performance, and security through automation, observability, and operational safety.
  • Drive trade-offs across consistency, latency, throughput, availability, scalability, durability, security, and cost.
  • Lead major initiatives from design through implementation, launch, and production operation.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, and cross-functional leaders to define priorities, align roadmaps, plan staffing, and coordinate execution across organizational boundaries.
  • Recruit exceptional engineers and engineering leaders, and develop existing team members into larger technical and leadership roles.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years experience in database internals, OLTP databases, or distributed storage systems.
  • 8+ years leading engineering teams, including multiple teams and managers.
  • Deep experience with transactions, concurrency, consistency, replication, recovery, storage, and database performance.
  • Strong understanding of AI-assisted and agentic software development and its application across the engineering lifecycle.
  • Experience operating mission-critical systems with high standards for availability, durability, observability, operational safety, and incident response.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive alignment and influence across organizational boundaries.
  • Strong hands-on technical ability, including navigating complex codebases and diving deep into system design and implementation.
  • Experience with OLTP database internals or Postgres internals.
  • Significant cloud experience across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including highly available services.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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