Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Engineering Manager role sits at the heart of a data platform capability that many SaaS products increasingly depend on: reliable streaming ingestion and near real time transformation. Within a cloud data ecosystem like Snowflake’s, the ingestion layer is where customer workloads first meet the platform, making operational simplicity, performance, and security central to product credibility.
From a SaaS career perspective, the remit signals experience that translates across modern platforms: building and evolving distributed systems that must scale, diagnosing production issues through RCAs, and shaping roadmaps that balance customer demand with platform constraints. Leading work connected to orchestration and self healing infrastructure also builds fluency in the operational expectations of subscription software, where uptime and predictable performance are part of the offering.
This role tends to fit an engineering leader who prefers staying close to technical architecture while owning delivery and team development. It suits someone comfortable coordinating across partner teams, reallocating effort as production signals change, and setting direction for systems that must be simple to operate at enterprise scale. On site collaboration in Bellevue is an explicit part of how the work is structured.
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.
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 the successful launch of products such as Snowpipe Streaming, Dynamic Tables, and Iceberg Auto-refresh, our user base is rapidly expanding. We are growing our team to meet this increasing demand.
We are seeking a talented Senior Engineering Manager for our Data Platform team in Bellevue, Washington as we scale the team for the next phase of growth.
To meet our ambitious plans in each of these pillars, we’re growing our teams. We are seeking talented Engineering Managers for our teams in Bellevue, WA as we scale our teams for the next phase of growth.
AS A SENIOR MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Set the strategic vision for your team and be accountable for team plans and deliverables
Drive team projects from idea formulation, through design and implementation collaborating with partner teams
Be able to shift resources across areas and projects to achieve execution goals and to respond to lessons from customer and production issues
Provide strong technical leadership to the team with a focus on quality, performance, and scale
Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making
Grow and build a strong, healthy, and diverse team by participating in all steps of the recruiting process from sourcing to closing
Be responsible for the career development of your reports, providing continuous mentorship and coaching
We are hiring a dynamic and accomplished Engineering Manager to join our Data Platform team. In this role, you will lead and expand a talented team working on data streaming, data ingestion & data transformation. You will play a critical role in the growth and success of Snowflake’s business as we shape the future of open data management at scale!
As an Engineering Manager in the Data Platform team, you must possess a strong technical foundation with distributed systems, along with prior experience leading and growing engineering teams. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong critical thinking, clear communication, and strong decision making skills. If you have this mix of skills, and a passion for working in one of the world’s largest data domains, we’d love to hear from you!
OUR IDEAL SENIOR MANAGER WILL HAVE:
15+ years industry experience designing and building distributed data systems, especially with a focus in database systems internals
5+ years of software engineering management experience.
A track record of recruiting, leading, and growing high performing technical teams in a demanding talent market.
Experience building enterprise grade software - reliable, secure, and trustworthy platforms and distributed systems at large scale
Excellent problem solving skills, and strong CS fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Proven experience with authoring roadmap documents, project plans and RCAs.
Fluency in Java or C++.
Ability to work in a globally distributed team, collaborate well across disciplines, and mentor junior engineers.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills. Outstanding written and oral English language skills.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
Ability to work on-site in our Bellevue, WA
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
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
