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Director of Engineering - Traffic & Networking

Snowflake Inc.· Engineering
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US-CA-Menlo Park$380k - $475kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Director of Engineering leading Snowflake's Traffic and Networking group, responsible for ingress/egress, domain management, and internal networking across multi-cloud environments to ensure robust connectivity, reliability, and scalable performance.

Responsibilities

  • Set the Strategic Vision: Define the roadmap for Snowflake’s networking foundation and be accountable for the execution of complex plans and deliverables.
  • Scale Infrastructure: Guide your team in building software solutions that automate and scale networking across multiple cloud providers including AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Drive Innovation: Lead projects from initial idea through design and implementation, collaborating with teams in the US, Ireland, Poland, and beyond.
  • Technical Leadership: Provide deep technical expertise with a focus on high-performance, security, and the abstraction of complex cloud networking layers.
  • Build the Team: Actively recruit, hire, and grow a diverse team of industry veterans and rising stars.
  • Mentorship: Be responsible for the career development of your reports through continuous coaching and mentorship.
  • Operational Excellence: Shift resources dynamically to respond to production issues and customer needs, ensuring high levels of reliability.

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5+ years in engineering management leading leaders.
  • Distributed Systems Expertise: Designing systems and managing large-scale production infrastructure with a focus on networking, compute, or storage.
  • Cloud Fluency: Strong hands-on experience with cloud service providers.
  • SaaS Background: Experience at scale within a multi-tenant or multi-single-tenant SaaS model, handling billions of complex queries and massive traffic ingress/egress.
  • Communication: Excellent collaboration skills to bridge networking requirements and cross-functional business goals.
  • Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

Required:Strategic roadmappingDistributed systems designCloud platformsSaaS governance
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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