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Engineering Manager

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-WA-Bellevue$236k - $339.3kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager for Snowflake's Postgres team, leading architecture and delivery of a fully managed cloud-native Postgres service, balancing long-term strategy with immediate business needs and ensuring operational readiness at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strong technical leadership across both the Postgres dataplane and the orchestration/control plane required to deliver a managed service (HA, upgrades, backups, scaling, automation, and operational safety).
  • Break problems down and build consensus across multiple parties to reach scalable, tractable, and timely solutions.
  • Function as both a problem solver and a problem finder by building the roadmap while delivering it.
  • Leverage experience to balance long-term thinking with more immediate business needs.
  • Understand trade-offs between consistency, performance, scaling limits, and costs to build scalable solutions.
  • Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet commitments to customers regarding durability, availability, performance, and security.
  • Solve real business needs at large scale by applying software engineering and analytical problem solving skills.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services).
  • 3+ years of experience building, managing, and leading high-performing engineering teams (and experience leading managers is a strong plus).
  • Strong track record of delivering large-scale, resilient systems and services in production.
  • Significant experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) and building services with high availability and operational rigor.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional alignment and influence across org boundaries.
  • Strong hands-on technical ability; comfortable navigating complex codebases and diving deep into system design and implementation.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
  • Postgres depth: experience with Postgres as an end user, operator, or administrator; strong understanding of database fundamentals and tradeoffs (consistency, performance, scaling limits, cost). OR Love of Postgres. You have worked with Postgres as an end user or administrator. You have a solid understanding of database fundamentals.

Skills

Required:Technical leadershipDistributed systemsPostgresCloud environments
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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