Senior Engineering Manager - Agentic Analytics

AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO:

• Drive the evolution of core database and SQL capabilities to serve emerging AI and agentic workloads alongside traditional analytics
• Lead and grow a team of talented engineers in the design, development, and support of a highly-parallel and fault-tolerant SQL database system
• Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and developing engineering leaders
• Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team
• Collaborate with other local and global teams and leaders across the Engineering and Product Management organizations
• Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high
• Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 10+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems (distributed systems, databases, or cloud services)
• 5+ years of experience leading teams to build database system internals (experience leading managers is a strong plus)
• Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query processing experience is highly preferred but not required
• Exposure to AI, ML, or agent-driven workloads and how they consume data platforms
• A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market
• Proven experience authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs
• Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:

• Background in database internals or large-scale data processing systems, e.g., Hadoop, Spark, etc.
• Prior experience running SQL database engineering teams
• Proven experience authoring product roadmaps, preparing and reviewing project design and test plan documents, and managing projects with JIRA