Tech Lead Manager - SUT Team

About the role

We are hiring a talented Tech Lead Manager (TLM) to lead Snowflake’s System Under Test (SUT) team, responsible for evolving how Snowflake engineers test the Snowflake product locally and at scale in CI. The SUT empowers Snowflake engineers by delivering a reliable, low-latency and cost-efficient developer experience across a high-growth, high-demand surface area. As the TLM for SUT, you will lead a small and highly technical team at the intersection of CI, developer infrastructure, and product engineering. You will set direction, drive execution, and partner broadly across Engineering Systems and product teams to deliver a more reliable, faster, and more maintainable test platform for Snowflake’s engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and grow the SUT team while creating a high-energy, cohesive environment with strong planning, ownership, and career development.
• Own the roadmap and execution for SUT rollout across development environments, CI and AI workflows.
• Drive measurable improvements in startup reliability, latency, and cost, using clear SLOs, dashboards, and operational metrics to guide decisions and raise the bar on execution.
• Serve as the technical anchor for the SUT domain, shaping architecture and guiding the evolution from legacy systems to a composable, containerized platform.
• Own operational excellence for the area, including on-call health, incident response, postmortems, and balancing project delivery with ongoing maintenance and support work.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• 1+ years of experience leading a technical engineering team with a strong mix of people leadership, roadmap ownership, and hands-on technical judgment.
• Strong systems thinking and comfort working across distributed systems, Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and modern engineering tooling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align stakeholders, secure buy-in, and bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-functional work.
• A pragmatic, customer-obsessed mindset and a bias for measurable impact through reliability, performance, and ease of use.

Preferred qualifications

• Bonus points for experience with developer productivity tooling, AI-assisted engineering workflows, and modern CI/test platform modernization efforts.

Pay

The estimated base salary range for this role is $236,000 - $339,200. Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan. The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location.

Benefits

This role is eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.