Engineering Manager, Data Engineering Experience
What We're Looking For
- 3-5 years of management experience
- Track record of leading technical teams, plus experience with modern IDEs, distributed build systems, and cloud-based dev environments
- Strong Product Instincts — able to confidently meet with customers (internal, external, product mgr hat), understand their problems, have a deep understanding of the existing product, and use that knowledge to author roadmaps, create project plans, and suggest novel product solutions
- Excellent Cross Functional Relationship Building — building relationships and managing expectations is critical to making the whole of the product greater than the sum of its parts
- Hands-on Experience — build real projects to test the product, find the hard edges, make fixes, and develop opinions. Become an advocate for your own products and how to take them to the next level. Use AI extensively to empower your decision making
- Passion mentoring and being mentored — Snowflake has a strong culture for growing people. We invest in others and ourselves. Having examples where you’ve concretely impacted those around you is critical
- Bonus: dbt, Airflow, Spark, or similar experience with Data Engineering frameworks/tools
Why This Role Matters Now
Authoring is the front door. Everything a data engineer does on Snowflake starts on one of our surfaces — so the experience here directly drives DE adoption and consumption.
Agentic authoring is our FY27 big bet. Natural-language pipeline authoring in our products is a leapfrog opportunity over the competition and we demoed a lot of this at Summit.
A four-year roadmap is ready to converge into one, cohesive product. Workspaces, DCM, Cortex Code, Pipeline Builder, and their underlying primitives are coming together into one coherent authoring story, and this role is stitching them together.
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.