Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake sits in the infrastructure layer of modern SaaS, where reliability and cost efficiency directly shape customer experience at scale. This Engineering Manager role is featured because it focuses on “free pools”—a foundational compute capability that influences how quickly workloads resume and how consistently the platform performs across multiple cloud providers.
For a SaaS engineering leader, the career value is in operating at the intersection of distributed systems, capacity planning, and service ownership. The remit touches the practical trade-offs that recur across mature SaaS businesses: availability commitments, performance under concurrency, and the economics of running large fleets. Managing a team responsible for mission-critical services also builds durable experience in cross-functional execution, roadmap translation, and operational readiness—skills that transfer across platform, infrastructure, and reliability organizations.
This role suits managers who prefer being close to technical strategy while still investing in people leadership. It will appeal to those who enjoy clarifying ambiguous system problems, making decisions with measurable operational outcomes, and coordinating across engineering, product, and program counterparts. Candidates interested in cloud-scale systems and the mechanics behind enterprise SaaS delivery will find the scope particularly aligned.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
There is only one Data Cloud.
Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.
Our product offering runs on multiple cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Our infrastructure self-optimizes, provides high availability and data protection across cloud providers so our users can focus on using their data, not managing it.
Our team is called the Freepool team, one of the core compute infrastructure teams at Snowflake for both internal and external customers. Snowflake’s free pools are pre-provisioned compute VMs that guarantee fast resume times and availability; they are mission-critical for customer experience in warehousing and related products. You will own these and drive the evolution of these for all compute at Snowflake ensuring that we meet cost, customer experience and availability expectations.
We are actively looking for an Engineering Manager to lead and grow this team. This role is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the vision, architecture and approach for the core services that the rest of Snowflake operates on.
AS A MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL LEAD A TEAM OF TALENTED ENGINEERS IN:
Lead a team of talented engineers in
Solving real business needs at large scale by applying your software engineering and analytical problem solving skills
Designing and implementing scalable distributed systems for our services layer.
Analyzing fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solving them.
Leading cross-functional initiatives, and collaborating with engineers, product managers and Technical Program Managers across teams
Understanding trade-offs between consistency, durability and costs to build solutions which can meet the demands of rapidly growing services.
Ensuring operational readiness of the services and meeting the commitments to our customers regarding availability and performance.
Develop the future leaders of Snowflake by providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and growth opportunities.
Be comfortable with delegating decisions for part of what is under your leadership to others.
Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team, and reach out to others for assistance as needed.
Partner with other leaders in the Engineering and Product organizations on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules.
Grow the team by recruiting and hiring new team members and growing existing ones.
Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision making.
OUR IDEAL MANAGER WILL HAVE:
9+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large scale systems in production.
2+ years experience in managing a group of junior and senior engineers.
Experience building large scale distributed fault tolerant services and control planes including components of compute, storage and networking configuration and monitoring.
Excellent understanding of low level operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking and storage, performance and scale.
Background in capacity management, resource orchestration, or cluster scheduling.
A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams.
Proven experience authoring roadmap documents and project plans.
Strong problem solving skills and excellent interpersonal communication skills.
Track record of identifying and delivering creative solutions.
BS in Computer Science; Masters or PhD Preferred.
WHY JOIN THE ENGINEERING TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?
Build an industry-leading Cloud Data Platform.
Solve challenging technical problems related to security, parallel and distributed systems, programming, resource management, large-scale system maintenance, and more!
Work closely with our customers & partners, understand their use cases & needs, think strategically to seek the right problem to solve at the right time, and innovate with rigor.
Learn about and contribute to:
Super-robust and secure enterprise SaaS platform that services thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of complex queries daily.
Highly-scalable and reliable cloud platform that runs on hundreds and thousands of machines.
Join a world-class team of both industry veterans and rising stars.
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.
How do you want to make your impact?
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.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
