Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Engineering Manager role sits at a core SaaS inflection point: the developer platform layer that determines how external engineers connect to, adopt, and build on a cloud product. Owning drivers, SDKs, APIs, and clients is less about a single feature area and more about shaping the interfaces and reliability expectations that ripple across the entire service.
For a SaaS career, the work builds durable platform leadership experience. Consolidating multiple drivers into a unified stack demands disciplined API design, compatibility thinking, and an operational mindset around performance and incident response. The remit also signals exposure to cross-org planning and roadmap tradeoffs, since client libraries must stay aligned with backend evolution, product priorities, and customer feedback loops.
This position fits engineering leaders who prefer leverage over locality, improving outcomes for many product teams through shared foundations. It will suit managers comfortable balancing people development with technical direction, and who can navigate stakeholder-heavy decisions across time zones. Professionals motivated by developer experience, long-term maintainability, and production-grade distributed systems will find the scope particularly aligned with SaaS platform trajectories.
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 AI 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 AI Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. In fact, Snowflake processes over 6 billion queries every day, supporting countless businesses in making data-driven decisions. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow.
We’re looking for an exceptional and experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead and grow our Developer Platform teams in Warsaw, Poland. This is a critical role with a wide scope, owning the entire Drivers, SDKs, APIs, and Clients pillar of our Developer Platform. You will be responsible for the teams that build and maintain the foundational components that enable developers to connect to and interact with Snowflake. Your work will directly impact the experience of every developer building on our platform.
AS A SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER, YOU WILL:
Lead and grow a team of talented engineers in the design, development, and support of the foundational clients that connect to our highly parallel and fault-tolerant platform.
Own the strategy and execution for the Drivers, SDKs, APIs, and Clients pillar, with a primary focus on delivering a unified driver stack that consolidates our existing drivers into a single, high-performance universal driver core.
Recruit top talent by interviewing and hiring new team members in a competitive market to grow the team's capabilities.
Develop your people by being responsible for the career growth of your reports, providing continuous mentorship, coaching, and guidance.
Drive technical direction by leading and participating in technical, design, and product discussions relating to your team's components.
Collaborate across the organization with other leaders in Engineering and Product on quarterly planning, staffing, and project schedules, including with teams across different time zones.
Effectively shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and respond to customer feedback and production issues.
Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making and a high-quality bar.
OUR IDEAL SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:
12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
5+ years of engineering management experience.
A demonstrated track record of successfully recruiting and leading technical teams in a competitive talent market.
Rock-solid engineering fundamentals with experience in developer-facing technologies, client-server protocols, database internals, or distributed systems.
Extremely strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to handle complex technical challenges.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
Outstanding written and oral English language skills are necessary for clear documentation and presentations.
BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:
A track record of creating or contributing to large open-source communities.
Strong database fundamentals, including SQL, performance optimization, and client-side protocols.
Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans, and RCAs, indicating strong project management skills.
Snowflake is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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.
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