Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Engineering Manager role sits at the intersection of SaaS platform engineering and real time data infrastructure, an area that has become core to modern cloud products. Within Snowflake’s Streaming team, the remit touches customer facing capabilities like ingestion and declarative pipelines, where reliability and operability are part of the product experience rather than an internal concern. That makes the scope especially relevant for SaaS leaders working on foundational services that many other teams and customers depend on.
From a SaaS career standpoint, the position offers durable experience in scaling a managed service: balancing roadmap delivery with service health, performance, and security expectations. Leading work from idea through implementation, while partnering closely with product management, builds the kind of cross functional operating rhythm common in mature SaaS organizations. The domain exposure to streaming systems and SQL engine adjacent problems also transfers well across data, infrastructure, and platform roles in cloud companies.
The role is best suited to an experienced engineering leader who still wants to engage deeply with technical direction while building team capability through hiring, mentoring, and coaching. It will fit someone comfortable being accountable for strategy and execution, and who prefers environments where orchestration, self healing, and “no knobs” operational simplicity are treated as first class product requirements.
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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.
The mission of the Snowflake Streaming team is to empower customers to ingest, transform, and serve their data using real-time and near real-time pipelines within Snowflake. Guided by Snowflake's "no knobs" philosophy, we develop infrastructure that manages orchestration, performance, self-healing, security, and privacy so that customers can focus on their business logic. Leveraging our team's extensive background in building streaming systems, we create infrastructure that is simple to operate and adaptable to diverse business requirements. With Dynamic Tables for declarative data pipelines , and Snowpipe Streaming high performance architecture we have an outstanding foundation with strong customer adoption. Now it is time for the next generation of innovation.
We are seeking a talented experienced Senior Engineering Manager for our Streaming team in Berlin, as we scale the team for the next phase of growth.
AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Lead and drive projects from idea formulation to design and implementation.
Drive great partnership with the product management team.
Set team strategy and be accountable for team plans and deliverables.
Grow and build a strong, healthy and diverse team through hiring, mentoring and coaching.
Collaborate with other engineering and cross functional teams.
Provide strong technical leadership to the team and partner teams.
Enable the data science organization, business groups, engineering teams to build comprehensive analytics quickly and effectively.
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:
10+ years hands-on software development experience, including experience working with large-scale cloud data platforms
5+ years of engineering management experience.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a focus on delivering impactful results.
Prior experience driving company initiatives and growth of the business in collaboration with product managers, marketing, sales, etc.
A background in SQL engines, especially in SQL compilation and/or streaming systems.
Demonstrated track record of managing operational excellence to ensure service availability, reliability and scalable performance..
Proven track record of recruiting, hiring, leading and growing technical teams.
BSc/MSc/PhD in Computer Science or related majors, or equivalent experience.
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
