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Engineering Manager, Release Validation

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-WA-Bellevue, US-CA-Menlo Park$236k - $339.2kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Lead and grow the Release Validation team to build test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling for scalable, reliable pre-production validation and AI-driven failure analysis at Snowflake.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow the team. Hire, mentor, and develop engineers working on test infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling. Build a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and customer focus.
  • Set strategy and roadmap. Define and drive the multi-quarter vision for release validation: faster signals, fewer blockers, better test quality, and lower cost.
  • Own the validation platform. Be accountable for the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of distributed regression and workload test frameworks, pre-production environments, and release validation pipeline.
  • Improve test health across the company. Work with feature teams to reduce flaky, non-hermetic, duplicate, and low-value tests, and set standards and incentives to keep them healthy.
  • Cut down release blockers. Improve failure tracing, filter noise from infrastructure problems, and speed up triage so real regressions reach owning teams quickly.
  • Drive AI and automation. Invest in AI-driven failure analysis and automated routing to remove manual work for engineers.
  • Work across teams. Act as the main partner to Release Engineering and engineering leaders on release quality.

Qualifications

  • 3-5 years of experience hiring, coaching, and developing engineers at different career stages.
  • Experience building and running large-scale CI/CD, test infrastructure, or developer productivity platforms, ideally for complex distributed systems.
  • A strong technical background with the ability to review designs, make architecture tradeoffs, and earn the respect of senior engineers.
  • A solid grasp of test strategy: regression vs. workload testing, hermeticity, flakiness, coverage tradeoffs, and release gating.
  • Experience driving work across many teams and influencing without authority.
  • A data-driven leadership style: setting measurable goals and using metrics to prioritize and show impact.
  • Strong communication skills, including explaining complex technical tradeoffs to engineers and executives.
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Team leadership and coachingCI/CD and test infrastructureDistributed systemsTest strategy
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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